Matthew 7:7,1 Corinthians 12:27

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 7:1-29

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 7:1-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that we should not judge one another. There is probably no sin quite as common among Christian people, as the sin of judging others. There are, indeed, few sins that have as much evil effect upon others, as does this sin. The Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4:2 : "It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful." That is true, but it is not for us... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 7:7

SEEKING AND FINDING‘Seek, and ye shall find.’ Matthew 7:7 Those who, in this world, seek for glory and honour and prosperity and a great name, are doomed to failure and disappointment; they seek, but they do not find. They who hunt after happiness, whether they hunt for it in pleasure, or in business, in gaiety or in retirement, in study or in dissipation, seek, but do not find. But Christ tells us a different tale—that there is something which we shall find, if we seek after it. What is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:1-12

Three (or Four) Commands Which Concern The Attitude That His Disciples Should Take Up With Regard To The World Emphasising The Taking Up Of A Positive Spiritual Attitude And The Eschewing Of A Worldly Negative Attitude (6:19-7:12). Having described how His disciples are to behave towards the Law (Matthew 5:21-48), and having considered their attitude towards charitable giving, prayer and fasting (Matthew 6:1-18), Jesus now turns to consider: 1). What they should do about material wealth... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:7

A Ask, and it will be given to you, B Seek, and you will find, C Knock, and it will be opened to you. As we have seen these words connect back to their dealings with ‘what is holy’ (Matthew 7:6). While His disciples are not to degrade what is holy by offering it to those not ready to receive it, they are to make the greatest of efforts to obtain it for themselves. The tense of the verbs indicates persistence. They are to ‘Ask and go on asking, seek and go on seeking, knock and go on knocking.’... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:7-12

The Means By Which the Law and the Prophets Will Be Fulfilled In The Coming Of The Messianic Age Through The Prayers Of His People (7:7-12). Having outlined in some depths the Messianic interpretation of the Law and some of the ‘holy teachings’ connected with it, Jesus now explains to His disciples how they can obtain the means by which to fulfil it. He had made clear that their righteousness had to exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 5:20). To some extent how they can exceed the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 7:7-11

Matthew 7:7-1 Kings : . The Value of Prayer.— An interpolation with no relation to the context. It is more suitably placed in Luke 11:9-1 Chronicles :. The emphasis is on asking, seeking, knocking; no conditions or limitations are mentioned, but we must perforce understand “ Not as I will, but as Thou wilt.” Seek and knock are pictorial illustrations of ask. Fish was, next to bread, the commonest article of diet round the Sea of Galilee; stones on the shore and perhaps water-snakes... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 7:7-8

Here is a precept expressed by three words, ask, seek, knock; and a promise annexed in three distinct terms, it shall be given you, ye shall find, it shall be opened unto you. The thing commanded is prayer; the thing promised is an audience of prayer, or an answer to prayer. The multiplying of the terms in which the precept is expressed is not idle and superfluous, it lets us know our averseness to the duty, and that God in it requireth of us faith, diligence, constancy, and importunity. Christ... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 7:1-12

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 7:3. Mote.—The Greek noun so translated means a stalk, or twig. The illustration seems to have been a familiar one among the Jews, and a proverb all but verbally identical is found as a saying of Rabbi Tarphon (Plumptre). Beam.—A graphic and almost droll representation of a comparatively great fault. The word means a log, joist, or rafter (Morison).Matthew 7:6. Give not, etc.—The connection between this verse and the preceding section is not quite obvious. It seems to be... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 7:7

Matthew 7:7 God is not only a great Giver, but He is sometimes a great Hider of His gifts. The subject to which the text applies pre-eminently, as the context shows, is the matter of the soul's welfare, and the things that accompany salvation. The promise is not, "Seek, health and ye shall find it. Seek fame, seek fortune, and ye shall find them;" but the whole discourse bears on the kingdom of heaven and the righteousness thereof, and the promise of the true and faithful witness is tantamount... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 7:7-8

Matthew 7:7-8 I. We have in these words, not a formal definition of prayer, but an incidental definition of prayer, and a most complete definition. We have it in the little word "ask." To pray to God is to ask of God. "Ask," said Christ; and the more simple and childlike the asking the better. II. We have here a recognition of the hindrances which we meet in prayer. The blessings that we want are sometimes visible in God's hands; God seems to be standing before us with the very mercies that we... read more

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