Matthew 4:16-17 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:12-22

Call of the fishermen. I. THE OCCASION OF THE CALL . Driven from Nazareth, our Lord repaired to the busy western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Through this district ran the great caravan-roads; and several important towns gathered all kinds of tradesmen. Herod the tetrarch had his court in Tiberias. The valuable fishings in the lake gave employment to many. Courtiers, soldiers, tax-gatherers, watching the caravans and fisheries, fishermen, women reputable and disreputable, filled... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:12-25

The beginning of our Lord's ministry. I. HE REMOVES TO CAPERNAUM . 1 . John was cast into prison. His ministry was ended; the Lord's begins. God continues his'servants' work; when one passes away, another takes his place; when the voice of one prophet is silenced, a greater follows, Each must work in faith while time is given; the work is not man's, but God's. He will fulfil it. His servants may seem to be laid aside and to be forgotten; he will carry on their work. He does not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:16

The people which sat ; "who walk" (Hebrew). Saw great light ; saw a great light (Revised Version); unnecessarily except as a matter of English, for it can hardly mean a definite light, Messiah. φῶς both here and in the next clause means light as such . And to them which sat . So the Hebrew, but the LXX . generally οἱκατοικοῦντες . In the region and shadow of death . The region where death abides, and where it casts its thickest shade. The Hebrew is simply "in the land of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:16

The extremes of light and darkness. The interval between the place of this verse and the close of the three temptations is considerable, and is not evident from the passage before us. It is also even obscured by the order of the verses here. Much history belongs to the gap between Matthew 4:11 and Matthew 4:12 . The seventeenth verse, as regards the matter of it, follows the twelfth. That, again, begs the fuller explanations of Matthew 14:3-5 ; and lastly, after all the history of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:17

The proclamation. From that time ; ἀπὸ τότε (elsewhere in the New Testament only Matthew 16:21 ; Matthew 26:16 ; Luke 16:16 ); i.e. from the time of his residence in Capernaum ( Matthew 4:13 ). Apparently our Lord, after the baptism, went to John ( vide supra , verse 1), then retired to Galilee, going first to Nazareth, then finally leaving it as his home for Capernaum. At Caper-nauru his public activity begins. From that time ; the phrase expresses not merely "at... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:17

The summons—to repent! It would appear that while first John the Baptist uttered the summons, "Repent ye," when announcing the advent of "the kingdom of heaven" ( Matthew 3:1 ), and while now Jesus himself does the same, the charge to utter it was not committed to "the twelve" ( Matthew 10:7 ), nor to "the seventy" ( Luke 10:9 ). The reason, perhaps, is this, that the work of these disciples was intentionally didactic rather than dogmatic for the present, while all the weight of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:17

The common message of John and Jesus. Here is a fact of the records to which sufficient attention has not been given. Our Lord did not realize at once the individuality of his Messianic message. He began public labour by doing John's work and repeating's John's message. Both had this for their gospel, "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Another remarkable fact needs to be noticed in this connection. When our Lord sent out his apostles on their trial-mission—a beginning of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 4:14-16

That it might be fulfilled ... - This place is recorded in Isaiah 9:1-2. Matthew has given the sense, but not the very words of the prophet. For the meaning of the passage as employed by Isaiah, see the notes at Isaiah 9:1-2.By the way of the sea - Which is near to the sea, or in the vicinity of the sea.Beyond Jordan - This does not mean to the east of Jordan, as the phrase sometimes denotes, but rather in the vicinity of the Jordan, or perhaps in the vicinity of the sources of the Jordan. See... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 4:17

See the notes at Matthew 3:2. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 4:16

Matthew 4:16. The people who sat in darkness They whose predecessors were afflicted by the Assyrians, and who, before Christ visited them, were captives of Satan, and had lived in gross ignorance of God and religion, being far from Jerusalem, the place of worship, and intermixed with the Tyrians, Sidonians, and other wicked heathen: saw a great light This is spoken by Isaiah in the prophetic style, which represents things future as already accomplished, because certainly to be... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:12-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:12-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 4:14-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 4:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 4:16

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