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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:34-42

What Will Result From His Coming, And What He Requires Of Those Who Would Follow Him (10:34-42). As Jesus comes to the end of His instructions He wants His disciples to be aware of the waves that they are going to cause. He wants them to know that what He has come to bring will not result in peace but a sword. Rather than expecting perfect harmony to follow, they must expect a world divided in two as though with a sword-stroke (into those who walk in the broad way, and those who walk in the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:40-42

a “He who receives you receives me, a And he who receives me receives him who sent me. b He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet, b He will receive a prophet’s reward, b And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, b He will receive a righteous man’s reward. a And whoever will give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, a Truly I say to you he will in no wise lose his reward.” And what comes to the disciple as a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:5-42

Matthew 10:5-Luke : . The Charge to the Twelve.— The section forms the second of five passages into which Mt. col lected the sayings of Jesus. The Markan account ( Matthew 6:7-1 Kings :) is followed by Luke 9:1-Deuteronomy :, but Luke 10:2-Joshua : (the Seventy) is from Q; Matthew 10:5-Nehemiah : combines the two sources. The mission is limited to Jews, hardly, in view of Matthew 10:6, Matthew 10:23, to the Jews of Galilee. Luke 10 omits the limitation; he wrote mainly for Gentiles. Indeed,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 10:40-42

Matthew 10:40-Luke : . End of the Charge. Matthew 10:40 connects with Matthew 10:11-2 Chronicles : ( cf. also Matthew 25:35-:, and note Matthew 18:5). The second clause gives a Synoptic root for John 12:44; John 13:20; John 20:21 etc. ( cf. Hebrews 3:1. and Clem., Cor. 42f.). Matthew 10:41 (like Matthew 7:15 ff.) seems to belong to a time when there was a definite class of Christian prophets.— in the name of: because he is; with no ulterior motive. Host and guest shall receive a like... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 10:40-42

He that receiveth you receiveth me, &c.; we have the same Luke 10:16, only there it is, he that heareth you heareth me; and there is added, and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. In John 13:20, it is, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. As great princes account what favour is shown to their ambassadors, who represent their persons, shown... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 10:34-42

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 10:38. Taketh not his cross.—By the Roman custom criminals were compelled to bear the cross to the place of execution. The Galilæans would know too well what was meant by “taking the cross.” Many hundreds had paid that forfeiture for rebellion that had not prospered, under Judas the Gaulonite and others (Carr).Matthew 10:39. He that findeth his life.—The word is the same as that translated “soul” (i.e. that by which man lives in the lower or the higher sense of life) in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 10:1-42

Shall we turn now in our bibles to the tenth chapter of the gospel of Matthew?In the beginning of the tenth chapter we find Christ sending His disciples out, telling them to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But in the fact that He is sending them to go, in the first part of chapter ten, makes the last verse of chapter nine quite significant. For in the last verse of chapter nine, Jesus said to His disciples: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of harvest, that he will send forth labourers... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 10:1-42

Matthew 10:1 . He called to him his twelve disciples. Jesus chose twelve that they might sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Luke 22:30. And that they might be the twelve foundations and gates of his church. Revelation 21:12-14. But this preference to the twelve did not hinder the extraordinary powers of the Spirit from being conferred on other apostolic men. And who would have thought, when they left their nets, that they should fill eternal thrones? Believer, take... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 10:40

40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. Ver. 40. He that receiveth you, receiveth me ] And who would not be glad to entertain the Lord Christ? Elizabeth held it a great matter that the another of her Lord should come to her, Luke 1:43 . Behold, Christ comes to us in his servants, in his ministers especially. Receive them, therefore, as so many angels, yea, as Christ himself, Galatians 4:14 , accounting their very feet (how much more their... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 10:40

He that: Matthew 18:5, Matthew 25:40, Matthew 25:45, Luke 9:48, Luke 10:16, John 13:20, John 20:21, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Galatians 4:14, 1 Thessalonians 4:8 and he that: John 5:23, John 12:44-Ephesians :, Philippians 2:10, Philippians 2:11, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 2:23, 2 John 1:9 Reciprocal: Exodus 16:8 - but against 1 Samuel 8:7 - they have not 1 Kings 18:4 - fed them 2 Kings 4:13 - thou hast Jeremiah 39:17 - I will Matthew 10:14 - whosoever Matthew 13:37 - is Matthew 25:21 - I will Matthew... read more