Matthew 10:4-8

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 10:5-15

We have here the instructions that Christ gave to his disciples, when he gave them their commission. Whether this charge was given them in a continued discourse, or the several articles of it hinted to them at several times, is not material; in this he commanded them. Jacob's blessing his sons, is called his commanding them, and with these commands Christ commanded a blessing. Observe, I. The people to whom he sent them. These ambassadors are directed what places to go to. 1. Not to the... 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

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 10:5-8

10:5-8a Jesus sent out these twelve, and these were the orders he gave them: "Do not," he said, "go out on the road to the Gentiles, and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans; but go rather to the sheep of the house of Israel who have perished. As you go make this proclamation: The Kingdom of Heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, cast out demons." Here we have the beginning of the King's commission to his messengers. The word which is used in the Greek... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 10:5-8

The King's messengers had words to speak and deeds to do. (i) They had to announce the imminence of the Kingdom. As we have seen (compare on Matthew 6:10-11 ) the Kingdom of God is a society on earth, where God's will is as perfectly done as it is in heaven. Of all persons who ever lived in the world Jesus was, and is, the only person who ever perfectly did, and obeyed, and fulfilled, God's will. Therefore in him the Kingdom had come. It is as if the messengers of the King were to say,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 10:8

10:8b-10 "Freely you have received; freely give. Do not set out to get gold or silver or bronze for your purses; do not take a bag for the journey, nor two tunics, nor shoes, nor a staff. The workman deserves his sustenance." This is a passage in which every sentence and every phrase would ring an answering bell in the mind of the Jews who heard it. In it Jesus was giving to his men the instructions which the Rabbis at their best gave to their students and disciples. "Freely you have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 10:4

Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot ,.... This is the last couple, for they are all mentioned by pairs, because they were sent forth "by two and two", as the Evangelist Mark says, Mark 6:7 . The former of these is called Simon the Canaanite, to distinguish him from Simon Peter, before mentioned; not that he was a Canaanite, that is, an inhabitant of the land of Canaan, a man of Canaan, as a certain woman is called a woman of Canaan, Matthew 15:22 for all the disciples of Christ were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 10:5

These twelve Jesus sent forth ,.... And no other but them, under the character of apostles. These had been with him a considerable time, to whom he had been gradually communicating spiritual knowledge; and by the benefit of private conference with him, and the observation they had made upon his doctrine and conduct, were greatly qualified for public usefulness: wherefore he gives them a commission, furnishes them with power and authority; and sends them forth from him by pairs, that they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 10:6

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. To whom he himself was sent, Matthew 15:24 . By "the house of Israel" is meant the whole Jewish nation; for though this phrase, when distinguished from the house of Judah, designs only the ten tribes; yet here it intends all the Jews, then living in the land of Judea, among whom there were some of all the tribes: and by "the lost sheep" of this house, are meant either all the people of the Jews in general, who were wandering, and were... read more

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