Matthew 15:1-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 15:28

Matthew 15:21; Matthew 15:28Then Jesus went thence and departed Into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.The woman of CanaanI. What made the faith of this woman so remarkable?1. She had much against her in her original circumstances. In the eye of a Jew she belonged to the most hated of all the Gentile races. There was a frontier line of dislike to cross, far wider than any distance between Tyre and Palestine. Yet it did not keep her from finding her way to the great Teacher of the Jewish nation.2.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:1

1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Ver. 1. Then came to Jesus ] Then, when the men of Gennesaret favoured and observed him. Satan stomacheth the prosperity of God’s kingdom in any place, and stirreth up his to oppose it. Esau began with Jacob in the womb, that no time might be lost. As soon as ever the Church’s child was born the devil sought to drown him, Rev 12:15 Scribes and Pharisees ] Learned and lewd; these are Christ’s greatest enemies,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:2

2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. Ver. 2. Transgress the tradition of the elders ] They cried up aloud traditions and the authority of antiquity. Similem hodie dicam Papistae nobis scribunt. For as the philosophers fled and hid themselves in the heretics, as one saith, so did the Scribes and Pharisees in the Popish doctors. Non tam ovum ovo simile; one egg or apple is not so like another as Pharisees and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:3

3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? Ver. 3. He answered and said unto them ] He shapes them an answer by way of recrimination ( αντδγκλημα ); which is a singular means of conviction to the adversary, but hard to be done by us without some mixture of bitterness, such as was that in David to Michal,2 Samuel 6:21; 2 Samuel 6:21 . Transgress the commandment of God by your tradition ] God’s commands should be kept as the apple... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:4

4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. Ver. 4. For God commanded, saying ] This is called the first commandment with promise, viz. the first affirmative commandment, or the first in the second table; or the first of all the ten with promise. a For that in the second commandment is rather a declaration of God’s justice and mercy, and that to the observers of the whole law; but here is a particular promise made... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:5

5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; Ver. 5. But ye say, Whosoever, &c. ] The intolerable covetousness of the priests bred this abominable corruption of this commandment, as it did many other like. a See Trapp on " Joh 2:14 " See Trapp on " Joh 2:15 " By the same arts at this day the Lady of Loretto, as they call her, hath her churches so stuffed with vowed presents and memories, as they are... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:6

6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free . Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ver. 6. And honour not his father and his mother ] Supple, insons erit. Our Saviour contents himself to relate the first words only of the tradition, as lawyers use to do the first words of the statute or canon they quote or argue upon. Thus have you made the commandment of none effect ] a Ye have sought to shoulder God out of his throne, to divest and... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:7

7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, Ver. 7. Well did Esaias prophesy of you ] Of such as you, and so of you too. The prophets and apostles then spake not of them only with whom they lived, and to whom they wrote (as the Jesuits blaspheme), but their oracles and doctrines do extend still to men of the same stamp and making. "In the volume of thy book it is written of me," saith David, Psalms 40:7 ; he found his own name in God’s book. And where he spake with Jacob at... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:8

8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. Ver. 8. This people draweth nigh unto me, &c. ] And they are no changelings, for at this day, although they know better, and can write upon the walls of their synagogues this sentence, Tephillah belo cauvannah cheguph belo neshamah, that is, Prayer without the intention of the mind, is but as a body without a soul, yet shall not a man anywhere see less intention than... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 15:9

9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Ver. 9. But in vain do they worship me ] For they lose their labour, and, which is worse, they commit sin. Displeasing service is double dishonour, as dissembled sanctity is double iniquity. Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men ] So do Papists. The pope can do all things that Christ can do, saith Hostiensis. He can of wickedness make righteousness, saith Bellarmine; of virtue, vice; of nothing,... read more

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