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Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 14:29-31

With remarkable trust Peter climbed over the side of the boat and began walking on the water. He, too, in obedience to Jesus’ command, was able to fulfill man’s destiny by subduing the sea. He was doing well until he became more concerned about the waves than about Jesus. "Seeing the wind" is a figure of speech (synecdoche) for seeing the storm. His distressing circumstances distracted his attention and weakened his faith in Jesus. Jesus rebuked him for his weak faith even though it was... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 14:32-33

The stilling of the wind is not the climax of the story. The disciples’ worship of Jesus is. This is the first time they addressed Jesus with His full title (Matthew 16:16; Matthew 26:63; Matthew 27:40; Matthew 27:43; Matthew 27:54; cf. Matthew 3:17; Matthew 4:3; Matthew 4:6). This was a new high for the disciples in their appreciation of Jesus’ person."Retrospectively, the disciples, in making this confession, are giving answer to the earlier question they had raised in an equally perilous... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 14:34-36

3. The public ministry at Gennesaret 14:34-36 (cf. Mark 6:53-56)This short section summarizes Jesus’ public ministry at this stage of His ministry. It shows that even though Jesus was withdrawing from unbelievers (Matthew 13:54 to Matthew 14:12) and giving special attention to the training of His disciples (Matthew 14:13-33), He still had time to minister to people who were in need.Gennesaret was a plain on the northwest coast of the Sea of Galilee. There was also a village called Gennesaret on... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 14:19

14:19 blessed. (a-26) Or 'praised.' 'gave thanks.' read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 14:23

14:23 mountain (c-11) Here, as noticed already, 'the mountain' is in contrast with the plain, so of 'the ship.' It is not ' a mountain,' but he left the low ground by the sea and went up. see Note, ch. 4.21. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 14:1-36

Death of the Baptist. Feeding the Five Thousand. Walking on the Sea1, 2. Herod’s opinion of Jesus (Mark 6:14; Luke 9:7).1. Herod the tetrarch] son of Herod the Great, received by his father’s will the government (tetrarchy) of Galilee and Peræa. His first wife was the daughter of the Arabian prince Aretas, called in 2 Corinthians 11:32 king of Damascus. During a visit to his half-brother, Herod Philip (not the tetrarch), who lived as a private citizen in Rome, he became enamoured of his wife,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 14:19

(19) He commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass.—This, too, was done with a calm and orderly precision. They were to sit down in companies of fifty or a hundred each, and thus the number of those who were fed became a matter of easy calculation. St. Mark, with a vivid picturesqueness, describes them as presenting the appearance of so many beds of flowers in a well-ordered garden. The bright colours of Eastern dress probably made the resemblance more striking than it would be with a... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 14:20

(20) Twelve baskets full.—The basket here is the cophinus, a small basket carried in the hand, and often used by travellers to hold their food. So Juvenal (Sat. iii. 14) describes the Jews of Italy as travelling with “their cophinus and a wisp of hay,” by way of pillow, as their only luggage. St. John records that the gathering was made by our Lord’s express commands, “that nothing be lost.” The marvellous display of creative power was not to supersede forethought, thrift, economy in the use of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 14:21

(21) Beside women and children.—St. Matthew is the only Evangelist who mentions their presence, but all the four use the word which emphasises the fact that all the five thousand were men. As the crowd had come in many cases from considerable distances, the women and children were probably few in number, were grouped together by themselves, and were not counted, so that the round number dwelt in men’s minds without reference to them. read more

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