Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 12:18
Behold my servant - This title was given to our blessed Lord in several prophecies. See Isaiah 42:1 ; Isaiah 53:2 . Christ assumes it, Psalm 40:7-9 . Compare these with John 17:4 , and Philemon 2:7 . God required an acceptable and perfect service from man; but man, being sinful, could not perform it. Jesus, taking upon him the nature of man, fully performed the whole will of God, and communicates grace to all his followers, to enable them perfectly to love and worthily to magnify... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 12:16
Charged them that they should not make him known - See Matthew 8:4 . Jesus Christ, as God, could have easily concealed himself, but he chooses to do it as man, and to use no other than human means, as these were quite sufficient for the purpose, to teach us not to neglect them in our necessity. Indeed, he always used his power less on his own account, than on that of men. read more