Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 15:1-9
The charge and Jesus’ response 15:1-9 read more
馬太福音 15:7-9 Cunpts
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 15:1-20
4. The opposition of the Pharisees and scribes 15:1-20 (cf. Mark 7:1-23; John 7:1)Matthew recorded another round of opposition, withdrawal and disciple training, and public ministry (ch. 15). This is his last substantial group of events in Jesus’ Galilean ministry. The writer’s repetition of this pattern highlights the chief features of this stage of Jesus’ ministry. This second round also reveals growth in each area of ministry. There is greater opposition, greater faith, and greater help for... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 15:7-9
Chronologically this is the first time Jesus called the Pharisees and teachers of the law hypocrites. Their hypocrisy consisted of making a show of commitment to God while at the same time giving human tradition precedence over God’s Word.Isaiah addressed the words that Jesus quoted to Jerusalem Jews who sometimes allowed external acts of worship to vitiate principle. Rather than continuing God’s will, the Jews’ traditions perpetuated the spirit of the hypocrites in Isaiah’s day. The context of... read more
John Darby
Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 15:7
15:7 saying, (e-8) Isaiah 29:13 . read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 15:1-39
The Traditions of the Elders. The Canaanitish Woman. Feeding the Four Thousand1-20. Unwashed hands and the traditions of the elders (Mark 7:1). In this important controversy Jesus defined His position, (1) towards rabbinical traditions about the Law; (2) towards the Law itself. The first part of our Lord’s discourse (Matthew 15:3-9) is addressed to the Pharisees. In it He admits (or at least does not dispute) the binding character of the Law itself, but denies the authority of rabbinical... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 15:7
(7) Ye hypocrites.—See Note on Matthew 7:5. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 15:8
(8) This people draweth nigh unto me.—The quotation is given substantially from the Greek version of Isaiah. We have already seen in Matthew 13:14 how the Pharisees were taught to see their own likeness in the language of the prophet. Now the mirror is held up once more, and they are seen to have been anticipated in that very substitution of human for divine ordinances for which our Lord reproves them. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 15:9
(9) Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.—Neither word is quite adequately rendered. The “doctrines” are not articles of faith, propositions to be believed, but precepts which were taught as binding. The “commandments” are single, special rules as contrasted with the divine “commandment,” which was exceedingly broad. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Matthew 15:1-39
Matthew 15:13 If I had not had a hope fixed in me that this Cause and Business was of God, I would many years ago have run from it If it be of God, He will bear it up. If it be of man, it will tumble; as everything that hath been of man since the world began hath done. And what are all our Histories, and other Tradition of Actions in former times, but God manifesting Himself, that He hath shaken, and tumbled down, and trampled upon, everything that He had not planted? Cromwell to the... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Matthew 15:8
8. This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, c.—By putting the commandments of men on a level with the divine requirements, their whole worship was rendered vain—a principle of deep moment in the service of God. "For," it is added in :-, "laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do." The drivelling nature of their multitudinous observances is here pointedly exposed, in contrast with the manly... read more