Matthew 12:2-8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:2

So saith Mark, Mark 2:24, only he puts it into the form of a question. Luke adds nothing, Luke 6:2, but saith, certain of the Pharisees. They granted the thing lawful to be done another day, but not on the sabbath day. How blind is superstition, that they could think that it was contrary to the will of God, that his people should fit themselves for the service of the sabbath by a moderate refreshment! Some of the Pharisees ordinarily attended Christ’s motions, not to be instructed by him, but... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:3-4

Mark and Luke add little, only Mark specifies the time, in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and saith, when he had need, and was an hungred. We have the history, 1 Samuel 21:1-15. David was upon his flight from Saul, upon the notice of his danger given him by Jonathan, 1 Samuel 20:1-42, and being hungry, he asks of the high priest five loaves of broad; the high priest tells him he had none but hallowed bread, which the high priest gave him, 1 Samuel 21:6. What the shewbread was may be... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:5

Neither Mark nor Luke have this argument of our Saviour’s. The meaning is, all acts of servile labour are not unlawful on the sabbath day. The priests, according to the law, Numbers 28:9, offer sacrifices, and do many other acts, such as circumcising, and many other things, which in your sense would be a profanation of the sabbath; yet you do not blame them, neither are they to he blamed, because God permitted and directed them. If any say, "But how doth this agree to what our Saviour is... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:6

The Jews had very superstitious conceits concerning the temple, and might object, But the priests’ works are done in the temple. The Jews had a saying, that in the temple there was no sabbath. They looked upon the temple as sanctifying all actions done there. To obviate this, (saith our Saviour), In this place is one (that is, I am) greater than the temple. The temple was but a type of me. If the temple can sanctify so much labour, will not my authority and permission, think you, excuse this... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:7

Neither Mark nor Luke have this argument. Our Lord yet goeth on taxing these great doctors of ignorance. The text he quotes is Hosea 6:6; we met with it before quoted by our Saviour, Matthew 9:13. The meaning is, that God prefers mercy before sacrifice. Where two laws in respect of some circumstance seem to clash one with another, so as we cannot obey both, our obedience is due to that which is the more excellent law. Now, saith our Saviour, the law of mercy is the more excellent law; God... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:8

This argument Luke hath, Luke 6:5. Mark hath it thus, Mark 2:27,Mark 2:28, And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man the sabbath: therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. Some interpreters make these two arguments: 1. The Son of man is Lord of the sabbath; therefore it is in my power to dispense with this action of my disciples, though it had been contrary to the letter of the law: or rather, therefore it is in my power to interpret the law, which I myself... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 12:1-8

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 12:1. Pluck the ears of corn.—See Deuteronomy 23:25.Matthew 12:3. What David did.—David’s action was not an apparent contravention of the Sabbath-law, but an apparent contravention of the temple or tabernacle-law. But our Lord reasons from equals to equals, or, on the principle of equivalents. The temple and the Sabbath were equivalent or equal in sanctity (Morison).Matthew 12:4. Did eat the shewbread.—The old bread that was removed on the Sabbath morning from the golden... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:6

Matthew 12:6 Christ Greater than the Church. I. Looking first at the things essential in the structure of the Church, I shall show what Christ is in relation to these. The essential things in the structure of the Church are: (1) The plan. The plan of the Christian Church is that of a temple. Christ, before the Church, was the Dwelling-place, the real Shechinah, the true primal home of the light which is to enlighten the world, the very, the incarnate Temple of God upon the earth, in His... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:8

Matthew 12:8 I. Note the title Jesus gives Himself: "the Son of man." He applied this phrase to Himself in all the different aspects of His great life. While He deemed His equality with God not a thing to be clutched at, He claimed, in humanity's name, more than an equality with men. In Him, as the Son of man, humanity is again restored to its sonship of God. It is the child alone who can show the father in the fatherly relationship; the neighbour can show the neighbour, the work the worker.... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 12:6

DISCOURSE: 1351CHRIST GREATER THAN THE TEMPLEMatthew 12:6. I say unto you, that in this place is One greater than the Temple.IT is said, concerning our blessed Lord, that he “endured, in a most extraordinary degree, the contradiction of sinners against himself [Note: Hebrews 12:3.].” And in reading his history, we are struck with it continually. There was not any thing which he either said or did, which was not made a subject of cavil to his enemies. Even his most beneficent acts were condemned... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:3-4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 12:8

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 12:1-8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:6

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:8

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 12:6

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