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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 9:36-38

Matthew 9:36 to Matthew 10:4 . The Sending of the Twelve.— Jesus sees the people “ distressed and scattered”— better, “ mishandled and lying helpless”— utterly unprepared, through lack of spiritual guidance and succour, for the Advent of the Kingdom. It was the hour of opportunity, and if there were enough heralds of the Kingdom, the flock could be folded, the ripe harvest garnered ( cf. Luke 10:2— the charge to the Seventy; John 4:35). He has already chosen twelve disciples (Mt. assumes... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 9:36

Mark hath something of this, Mark 6:34. It pitied him, who came down from heaven to earth to seek and to save lost souls, to see what a company of people followed him, willing to be instructed, because they were εκλελυμενοι, or, as some read it, εσκυλμενοι, tired and wearied with running after him to hear the gospel, and ερριμμενοι, scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Had then the Jews at this time no ministry? They had the temple at Jerusalem, scribes, and Pharisees, and priests;... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 9:36-38

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Matthew 9:36-38Preparing for change.—We seem here to be like men arriving at a new stage on their journey. At such a juncture they naturally ask, on the one hand, how far they have reached; and, on the other, what is required by them more. With regard to our Saviour’s ministry, we shall find that both these questions are answered for us in the passage before us.I. The nature of the position arrived at.—This was a position in which, on the one hand, there were... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 9:36

Matthew 9:36 I. Our Lord here teaches us how to think of, or to look at, men. (1) Notice how here, as always to Jesus Christ, the outward was nothing, except as a symbol and manifestation of the inward, how the thing that He saw in a man was not the external accidents of circumstances or position; but His true, clear gaze, and His loving, wise heart, went straight to the essence of the thing, and dealt with the man, not according to what he might happen to be in the categories of earth, but to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 9:36-38

Matthew 9:36-38 Jesus Seeing the People. Note: I. What Jesus saw. He saw the multitudes. The range of His vision could not be limited, nor His ministry confined, to the immediate requirement of the more palpable of life's sufferings. He saw the multitude scattered abroad, and as sheep without a shepherd. He commiserates their condition instead of condemning them, and sees that the people had been sinned against quite as much as they had sinned. The people were scattered and distressed. Sin is... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 9:36-38

DISCOURSE: 1340OUR DUTY TO THE BENIGHTED WORLDMatthew 9:36-38. when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scatteredm abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.IT is an honour to the present age, that religion has assumed her true character of diffusive... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Matthew 9:36

The Compassion of Jesus A Sermon by C.H. SPURGEON "He was moved with compassion."-- Matthew 9:36 . This is said of Christ Jesus several times in the New Testament. The original word is a very remarkable one. It is not found in classic Greek. It is not found in the Septuagint. The fact is, it was a word coined by the evangelists themselves. They did not find one in the whole Greek language that suited their purpose, and therefore they had to make one. It is expressive of the deepest emotion; a... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 9:1-38

And so he entered into a ship, and he passed over, and he came to his own city ( Matthew 9:1 ).His own city being Capernaum. I told you that was his headquarters.And, behold, they brought to him a man who was sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus when he saw their faith said to the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven thee ( Matthew 9:2 ).Now I can imagine that that was a tremendous disappointment to his friends. I'm certain that they had in their mind Jesus... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 9:1-38

Matthew 9:1 . Jesus came into his own city, Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Matthew 9:2 . A man sick of the palsy. This is a disease in which the whole nervous system is relaxed and dissolved. Jesus seeing their faith. As the centurion’s faith was advantageous to his servant, so the faith of this paralytic’s friends was of the last service to himself; though it may be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 9:36

Matthew 9:36But when He saw the multitudes.Christ’s look of sympathyI. What he saw.1. Not reasons for admiration.2. Not grounds for discouragement.3. But a call for pity.II. The condition of the people.1. Faint.2. Scattered.3. Shepherdless.III. His compassion enlisted for their succour.1. The grace of the Father.2. His own prevailing intercession.3. The gifts of the Spirit.4. The service of His messengers. (H. A. Cornell.)Compassion for soulsI. The sight which presented itself to our Lord.... read more

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