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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 14:22-33

Jesus Demonstrates His Mastery Of The Sea And Is Recognised As ‘The Son of God’ (14:22-33). This is the second consecutive miracle in which Jesus take the initiative in order to demonstrate to the disciples Who He is and What He has come to do, and it results in their recognition that He is ‘the Son of God’. In context this concept goes well beyond Messiahship. He is Lord of wind and waves, a particularly awesome thing to Israelites who feared and respected the sea. Jesus has just demonstrated... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 14:23

‘And after he had sent the crowds away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray, and when evening was come, he was there alone.’ Then once He had been able to disperse the crowds He ‘went up into the mountain apart to pray.’ He had much to pray about and spent the remainder of the evening and most of the night in prayer ‘alone’. This aloneness is in contrast to His disciples who are struggling at Sea. Without Him they too are alone. Note how in the major chiasmus of the section this... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 14:22-33

Matthew 14:22-Micah : . Jesus Walks on the Sea ( Mark 6:45-1 Thessalonians : *).— Mt. omits “ to Bethsaida,” seeing that the boat arrived at Gennesaret ( Matthew 14:34), and the remark that Jesus “ would have passed by them.” But he amplifies the story by the attempt of Peter to walk on the water. This incident, which has a close parallel in Buddhist legend, emphasizes the power of faith. It may reflect the later proud impulsiveness, fall, repentance, and restoration of the apostle. Loisy... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 14:23

John saith no more than that he departed himself into a mountain alone. Matthew and Mark say it was to pray. From whence (as from others places of holy writ) the duty of secret prayer is commended to us by the great example of our Saviour: he chooseth the mountain for it, as a place of greatest privacy and solitude. And when the evening was come: this confirmeth the former notion, that the Jews had two evenings. They called that part of the day after the sun had began to decline the evening,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 14:22-33

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 14:22. Constrained His disciples.—Perhaps they, too, were carried away by the frenzy of the time, and would have joined the people in proclaiming Him King (John 6:15); or perhaps they were unwilling to leave Him behind among the people at a moment of such excitement (Laidlaw).Matthew 14:23. The evening.—The later evening (see note on Matthew 14:15).Matthew 14:24. Tossed.—Distressed (R.V.). The expression in the original is forcible, “tortured by the waves,” writhing in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 14:1-36

And at that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus. And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he's risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him. For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. But when... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 14:1-36

Matthew 14:2 . This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead. Mark indicates that Herod was a sadducee by those words of Christ, Beware of the leaven of the sadducees beware of the leaven of Herod. But how is this reconciled with Luke 9:9, where Herod desired to see Christ? Perhaps, like our Harry, he often changed his faith. Perhaps he doubted sometimes whether the Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls into new bodies, might not be true. The cabalists... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 14:23

Matthew 14:23He went up into a mountain apart to pray. Religious retirementIt hath been disputed which is a state of greater perfection, the social, or the solitary; whereas, in truth, neither of these estates is complete without the other: as the example of our blessed Lord (the unerring test and measure of perfection) informs us.I. Under what limitations may the duty of religious retreat and recollection be recommended? No man is, or ought to be, so deeply immersed in the affairs of this... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 14:23

23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. Ver. 23. He went up into a mountain apart to pray ] Secret prayer fats the soul, as secret morsels feed the body: therefore is it said to be the banquet of grace, where the soul may solace herself with God, as Esther did with Ahasuerus at the banquet of wine, and have whatsoever heart can wish or need require. Only (because anima dispersa sit minor ) get... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 14:23

he went: Matthew 6:6, Matthew 26:36, Mark 6:46, Luke 6:12, Acts 6:4 he was: John 6:15-Esther : Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:42 - Elijah Mark 6:47 - General Luke 5:16 - General John 6:3 - General read more