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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:1-4

The introduction of the theme of humility 18:1-4 (cf. Mark 9:33-36; Luke 9:46-47) read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:3-4

Jesus announced His revolutionary words with a solemn introductory formula (cf. Matthew 5:18). He said it was necessary that His disciples change and became as little children. The word "converted" in the NASB is misleading. Jesus was not speaking about "getting saved." Childlikeness was necessary for entrance into the messianic kingdom. Children have many characteristics that distinguish them from adults, but because of the disciples’ concern with position in the kingdom and the teaching that... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:5-6

The child in view in these verses is not a literal child but the disciple who has humbled himself or herself and in so doing has become childlike (Matthew 18:3-4). Jesus was speaking of receiving a humble disciple of His in Matthew 18:5. (Jesus taught the importance of receiving a little child in Mark 9:36-37 and Luke 9:48.) Whoever does this "in Jesus’ name" welcomes the disciple because he or she is one of Jesus’ disciples, not because that one is personally superior, influential, or... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:5-14

The seriousness of impeding the progress of a disciple 18:5-14 (cf. Mark 9:37-50; Luke 9:48-50)The major sub-theme of this discourse is offenses (Gr. skandalon, stumbling blocks). The humble disciple will be careful not to put a stumbling block in the path of another disciple as that one proceeds toward the kingdom. read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 18:1

18:1 greatest (d-13) The Greek word is the comparative, hence 'greater' than others. it is thus characteristic, not personal. 'Greatest' answers to it in English. read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 18:3

18:3 all (e-21) Or 'in no wise.' a strengthened negative. read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 18:4

18:4 Whoever (f-1) He who has that character. greatest (d-13) The Greek word is the comparative, hence 'greater' than others. it is thus characteristic, not personal. 'Greatest' answers to it in English. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:1-35

Offending the Little Ones. The Unmerciful Servant1-14. Ambition reproved, and humility taught by the example of a little child (Mark 9:33-37; Luke 9:46-48).1. Who is the greatest?] RV ’Who then is greatest?’ The ’then’is explained from St. Mark’s statement that on the way to Capernaum the disciples had been disputing who was the greatest. The Transfiguration had revived the hopes of the three leading apostles that the Kingdom of Christ was about to be established, and the Twelve were divided... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 18:1

XVIII.(1) Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?—St. Mark records more fully that they had disputed about this in the way, that our Lord, knowing their thoughts (Luke 9:47), asked them what had been the, subject of their debate, and that they were then silent. We may well believe that the promise made to Peter, and the special choice of the Three for closer converse, as in the recent Transfiguration, had given occasion for the rival claims which thus asserted themselves. Those who were... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 18:2

(2) Jesus called a little child unto him.—As the conversation was “in the house” (Mark 9:33), and that house probably was Peter’s, the child may have been one of his. As in other like incidents (Matthew 19:13; Matthew 21:15-16), we may recognise in our Lord’s act a recognition of the special beauty of childhood, a tender love for the gracious trust and freedom from rivalry which it shows when, as yet, the taint of egotism is undeveloped. St. Mark adds that He folded His arms round the child as... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:1-4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:3-4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:5-6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 18:5-14

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 18:1

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 18:3

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 18:4

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 18:1-35

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 18:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 18:2

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