Matthew 1:18-26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 1:21

“And she will bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS, for it is he who will save his people from their sins.” Mary is to bear a son and His name is to be called Ye-sus, ‘YHWH is salvation’, for he will save His people from their sins. We can compare here Psalms 130:8, where it is said, ‘and He (YHWH) shall redeem Israel from all her iniquities’. So Jesus is to act on behalf of YHWH as a Saviour. As in Luke the emphasis is on a Saviour acting on behalf of God the Saviour (compare... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 1:22

‘Now all this is come about that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,’ Here we have the first prophetic formula, and yet this one shares its uniqueness with one other, for it is only here and in Matthew 2:15 that it is said to be ‘spoken by the Lord’. Matthew is very careful in his use of formulae (see introduction), and while he is quoting Isaiah here he does not mention his name. The mention of Isaiah’s name is reserved for a special section of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 1:23

“Behold, the virgin will be with child, and will bring forth a son, and they will call his name Immanuel,” which is, being interpreted, God with us.’ This quotation is taken from Isaiah 7:14. There the birth of an heir to the throne of David (Isaiah 9:6-7) was to be by a virgin (in LXX, translating ‘almah - an unmarried woman of marriageable age who can be assumed to be a virgin (see Excursus below)). The reason for this was that God had rejected the house of David in His rejection of Ahaz... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 1:24-25

‘And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took to himself his wife, and knew her not until she had brought forth a son, and he called his name JESUS.’ Note how it is made clear that this was a genuine dream. There is no suggestion that the angel had actually been present, except in his thoughts. Thus far from so-called ‘legendary accretions’ the opposite is the truth. On the other hand Joseph had no doubt that a messenger from the Lord had spoken to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 1:18-25

Matthew 1:18-Lamentations : . The Birth of the Messiah.— In Mt., Joseph has the principal rô le; in Lk., Mary. Six inspired dreams are narrated in Mt., three of them with “ the angel of Yahweh.” Five are in chs. 1 and 2, the sixth in Matthew 27. Early writers like Justin Martyr claimed credence for the virgin birth of Jesus because records of pagan religion were full of similar marvels. Philo is witness for similar Jewish beliefs about the patriarchs. One curious early idea was that Mary... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 1:18

The evangelist prefaceth this extraordinary birth of our Saviour in this manner. Now the birth or Jesus Christ was on this wise; not in the ordinary course and manner in which children are conceived and brought forth into the world (with child of the Holy Ghost Luke 1:35), but in this wonderful manner. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph. Betrothing, or espousing, was nothing else but a solemn promise of marriage made by two persons each to other, at such a distance of time as they... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 1:19

It was found she was with child, possibly herself or some of her friends told it to Joseph her espoused husband; it is plain from this text he came to the knowledge of it, for upon it, the evangelist saith, he was minded to put her away privily. Had Joseph at this time heard and believed that the Holy Ghost had come upon her, and the power of the Most High overshadowed her, being a good man, he would not have entertained thoughts of putting her away. But though she had before received this... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 1:20

What we have in this verse assures us, that Joseph was not only inclined, by the kindness and benignity of his own natural temper, and by his charity, to that moderate resolution he had taken up, but also more immediately influenced by God, who was now sending a messenger to him to tell him what he would have him to do in this case. Whether this angel was the angel Gabriel, who Luke tells us, Luke 1:26, was sent to Mary, to tell her that the power of the Most High should overshadow her, or some... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 1:21

When the usual time of women is accomplished, she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall not be thy natural son, but he shall be her son, not begot by thee, but brought forth by her, so flesh of her flesh. His name shall be called Jesus by thee, or by his mother. It is the will of God thou shouldest give him that name. For he shall save his people from their sins. It was the custom of the Jews (God’s ancient people) to give names to their children, either... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 1:22-23

By these great acts of Divine Providence, that which was spoken and prophesied of by Isaiah, Isaiah 7:14, speaking by inspiration from God, was fulfilled. Though things are said in the evangelists to be fulfilled when the types have had their accomplishment in the antitype, and when something cometh to pass much like, or bearing some proportion to, something which before happened in the world, (as I shall show hereafter), yet I take the sense of being fulfilled here to be literally fulfilled;... read more

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