Matthew 10:2 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 10:1-4

Here we are told, I. Who they were that Christ ordained to be his apostles or ambassadors; they were his disciples, Matt. 10:1. He had called them some time before to be disciples, his immediate followers and constant attendants, and he then told them that they should be made fishers of men, which promise he now performed. Note, Christ commonly confers honours and graces by degrees; the light of both, like that of the morning, shines more and more. All this while Christ had kept these twelve,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 10:1-4

10:1-4 And when he had summoned his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, so that they were able to cast them out, and so that they were able to heal every disease and every sickness. These are the names of the twelve apostles: first and foremost Simon, who is called Peter. and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax-collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 10:1-4

When we put together the three accounts of the calling of the Twelve ( Matthew 10:1-4 ; Mark 3:13-19 ; Luke 6:13-16 ) certain illuminating facts emerge. (i) He chose them. Luke 6:13 says that Jesus called his disciples, and chose from them twelve. It is as if Jesus' eyes moved over the crowds who followed him, and the smaller band who stayed with him when the crowds had departed, and as if all the time he was searching for the men to whom he could commit his work. As it has been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 10:2

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these ,.... This is the first time these disciples are called "apostles", they were learners before; now being instructed, they are sent forth to preach publicly, and therefore are called apostles, or messengers, persons that were sent: so the elders of the priesthood are called שלוחי בית דין , "the apostles", or messengers "of the sanhedrim" F14 Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 5. , to whom the high priest were delivered, before the day of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:2

Apostles - This is the first place where the word is used. ΑποϚολος , an apostle, comes from αποϚελλω , I send a message. The word was anciently used to signify a person commissioned by a king to negotiate any affair between him and any other power or people. Hence αποϚολοι and κηρυκες , apostles and heralds, are of the same import in Herodotus. See the remarks at the end of chap. 3. It is worthy of notice, that those who were Christ's apostles were first his disciples; to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:2

Verse 2 2.The first, Simon, who is called Peter The Church of Rome displays extreme folly in drawing from this passage their doctrine of the primacy. That Simon Peter was the first among the apostles we readily allow, but what was true in reference to a few persons, cannot, on any proper grounds, be extended to the whole world. Besides, the circumstance of his being mentioned first, does not imply that he possessed authority over his companions. Granting all that they ask regarding Peter, his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:1-4

The mission of the twelve. I. THE CALL . 1 . The number , lie called unto him his twelve disciples. He had many more. He called these twelve. There seems to be a symbolical meaning in the number. We see plainly in the Book of the Revelation that twelve is the number of the Church. Three is the signature of God; four of the world; twelve, the product of three and four, points to God as entering into relations with the world, making a covenant with the Church which he hath called... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:1-42

The "commanding" of the twelve. This was a grand historic occasion indeed. The honoured but ever-comparatively feeble and now dimmed, dying, or dead schools of the prophets are to be succeeded by a scion of Christianity that marks at one and the same time its noblest and most amazing human institution, and Heaven's most condescending gift and human trust. Now begins "the great company of preachers" of the New Testament. They began with twelve;. they very soon grew to seventy; and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:2

Now the names, In the parallels part of the word "names" is found as a verb, "whom also he named apostles;" i.e. the naming there refers, not to the individuals, but to their office. Is the form found in our Gospel an "accidental" rearrangement due to a reminiscence that the word "name" occurred in the earliest source, or is it possible that the two facts are connected, and that the individuals received a new name when they definitely entered on a new office? That they should have... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:2-4

THE NAMES OF THE AGENTS . Parallel passages: Mark 3:14-19 ; Luke 6:13-16 (cf. Acts 1:13 ). This Commentary upon St. Luke deals so fully both with the list as a whole and with the separate names that it will not be necessary to say much here. Observe that the general agreement in arrangement points to some common basis underlying all four accounts; also that of these the one found in the Acts is the briefest, giving little more than the bare names; and that that found in our... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 10:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 10:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 10:1-4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 10:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:1-42

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:2-4

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