The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:42
Parallel passage: Mark 9:41 , where it will be observed that the following verse is parallel to Matthew 18:6 and Luke 17:2 (cf. supra , verse 40). One of these little ones … a disciple . It is evident, from a comparison of verse 41, that the two titles refer to one and the same person. Christ, using his own term, calls his followers "little ones;" using the term of others, he calls them "disciples." Little ones. Partly a word of personal endearment (cf. Matthew 25:40 );... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:41
Matthew only. The whole verso recalls Jewish Christianity; it was hardly likely to have been remembered outside Jewish Christian circles. He that receiveth a prophet . One upon whom the mantle of the old prophets might in any sense he said to have fallen. The saying was probably recorded with special thought of the Christian peripatetic "prophets," who are brought before us so vividly in the 'Didache.' In the name of a prophet ( εἰς ὄνομα προφήτου ) . In late Hebrew and in... read more