Matthew 16:2-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 16:1-12

The visit to Galilee. I. THE LORD CROSSES THE LAKE TO THE WESTERN SHORE . 1 . He dismisses the multitude. They went away quietly, it seems. There was no need now to constrain the disciples to depart first. The people did not attempt to take the Lord by force to make him a King. They were more docile than the five thousand had been. They were full of thankfulness. They glorified the God of Israel. But they were simple-hearted people; they did not regard themselves as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 16:2

The paragraph consisting of this and Matthew 16:3 is omitted by many good manuscripts, probably owing to its similarity to the passage in Matthew 12:38 . These verses are most probably genuine; and they certainly could not have been foisted into the text from Luke 12:54-56 . The circumstances are too different, and the variations too marked, to make such interpolation probable. When it is evening. The Pharisees had demanded a sign from heaven; Jesus points to the western glow in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 16:3

It will be foul weather today more tersely in the Greek, Today a storm! Such prognostications are found among all peoples. Many examples are collected by Wetstein. Lowring ( στυγνάζων ); a word applied to the expression of the countenance, and therefore applicable, by prosopopceia, to the look of the sky. Fillion quotes Aulus Gellius, Matthew 13:29 , "Non solum in hominum corporibus, sed etiam in rerum cujusquemodi aliarum facies dicitur. Nam montis et coeli et maris facies, si... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 16:1-4

See also Mark 8:11-12.The Pharisees also, and the Sadducees - See the notes at Matthew 3:7.Tempting - That is, trying him - feigning a desire to see evidence that he was the Messiah, but with a real desire to see him make the attempt to work a miracle and fail, so that they might betray him and ruin him.A sign from heaven - Some miraculous appearance in the sky. Such appearances had been given by the prophets; and they supposed, if he was the Messiah, that his miracles would not all be confined... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 16:2-3

Matthew 16:2-3. He answered, When it is evening, &c. As if he had said, It is evident you ask this out of a desire to cavil rather than to discern the divine will, for in other cases you take up with degrees of evidence far short of those which you here reject: as for instance, you know that a red sky in the evening is a presage of fair weather, and a red and lowering sky in the morning, of foul weather; thus ye can discern the face of the sky, and form from thence very probable... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 16:1-12

72. Beware of Pharisees and Sadducees (Matthew 16:1-12; Mark 8:11-21; Luke 12:1-3,Luke 12:54-56)In spite of all that Jesus had done, the Pharisees and Sadducees still demanded he produce a special sign to satisfy them. Jesus refused. They could look at the sky and work out what the weather would be like, but when they looked at Jesus’ miracles they refused to believe what the miracles told them, namely, that Jesus was the Son of God. The only sign Jesus would give them would be his... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 16:2

He = And He. It will be. Omit. fair weather. Greek. eudia. Occurs only here, and in Matthew 16:3 . the sky = the heaven (sing), as in Matthew 16:1 (see note on Matthew 6:9 , Matthew 6:10 ). This is the point of the question. red. Greek. purrazo. Occurs only here, and in Matthew 16:3 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 16:3

foul weather = a storm. can = get to know by experience. App-132 . discern. Greek. diakrino. App-122 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 16:2

But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the heaven is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times.This was not an endorsement of the Pharisees' method of predicting the weather, but was a glaring contrast, pointed out by Jesus, between their supposed sagacity in material things and their blindness to far... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 16:2-3

Matthew 16:2-3. He—said unto them, &c.— Our Saviour's reply may be thus paraphrased: "It is most apparent that you ask this out of a desire to cavil, rather than to learn the divine will: for, in other cases you take up with degrees of evidence, far short of those which you here reject. As for instance, you readily say in an evening, It will be fair weather to-morrow; because the sky is, this evening, of a bright and fiery red: And in the morning,—It will be tempestuous weather to-day, for... read more

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