Matthew 3

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 3:15

But Jesus, answering, said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.This was equivalent to saying, "Yes, I know I have no sins to be repented of and that I might claim an exemption from this duty proclaimed by the authority of God and binding upon all men; but, since this is God's ordinance, I wish to honor it anyway and am delighted to do so by obeying the commandment now." read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 3:16

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.Straightway from the water strongly suggests immersion as the action, that constitutes Scriptural baptism. Immersion is the only "kind" of baptism in which the person being baptized goes to the water before the act and leaves the water behind after the act! Who had the authority to change the action called baptism?... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 3:17

And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.Three times, the Holy Scriptures represent God as speaking out of heaven in testimony for Jesus Christ: in this place, on the occasion of the transfiguration (Matthew 17:5), and in John 12:28-30.Voice out of heaven ... This passage is a stronghold of the Doctrine of the Trinity. Discernible by man's senses, all three persons of the Godhead appear in this passage. The Son is coming up from the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3

CHAP. III. John preacheth: his office, life, and baptism: he reprehendeth the Pharisees, and baptizeth Christ in Jordan. Anno Domini 26. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:1

Matthew 3:1. In those days— That is, while Jesus was yet at Nazareth, where he dwelt till he entered on his public ministry, in the thirtieth year of his age. It is usual with authors to denote the times they are speaking of in an indeterminate manner. St. Luke, chap. Mat 3:2 has specified this period very particularly; and as he has given us a morefull and exact account of John the Baptist than St. Matthew, we shall refer our readers to the notes on his Gospel. The wilderness of Judea was not... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:2

Matthew 3:2. Repent ye— This was only the substance and result of his preaching. The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God, are but two phrases for the same thing, agreeably to the style of the Hebrews; who frequently used the word heaven to denote God himself who dwells there. Hence what is here called by St. Matthew the kingdom of heaven, is by St. Mark and St. Luke called the kingdom of God; Mark 1:15.Luke 6:20; Luke 6:20. The kingdom of heaven, therefore, signifies here the kingdom of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:4

Matthew 3:4. His raiment of camel's hair— The Jews used to wear hairy or coarse garments in time of sorrow and humiliation. See Matthew 11:21. The Nazarites did the same till they had fulfilled their vow. It was also a dress sometimes worn by the prophets; Zechariah 13:4. 2 Kings 1:8. Revelation 6:12; Revelation 11:3. In all these respects it suited John the Baptist, as he preached repentance, as he was a prophet, and as he imitated the austerity which was practised by the Nazarites. He wore... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:5

Matthew 3:5. And all the region round about Jordan— As the river Jordan runs through a vast tract of land, it cannot be supposed that all they who lived nearest it came to John's baptism. By all the region, &c. St. Matthew therefore must mean some of those countries near Jordan, which bordered upon Judaea; as the plain of Jordan, which is by the LXX called the country about Jordan. The novelty of a prophet's appearance in Israel, the family of John, the circumstances of his birth, the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:6

Matthew 3:6. Were baptized of him— There were two kinds of baptism in use among the Jews; one was that of the priests at their consecration, Leviticus 8:6.; the other was that of the heathens proselyted to the Jewish religion. It was therefore no unheard-of rite which the Messiah's harbinger made use of. His countrymen were well acquainted both with the thing itself, and with its signification: they knew that it denoted some great change, either in the opinions or practices of those who... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:7

Matthew 3:7. Pharisees— A Jewish sect so called from a Hebrew word signifying separated, or set apart, because they distinguished themselves from the rest of the Jews, by pretending to a greater degree of holiness and piety than the generality of them did; and by some particular observances. The Sadducees were another Jewish sect, so named from Sadoc, the founder of it. The most authentic account of these sects may be seen in Josephus, Antiq. b. xviii. c. 1. and Jewish War, b. ii. c. 8. All... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 3:15

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 3:16

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 3:17

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 3:7

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