Matthew 12:8-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 12:20

The rarest of gentleness. The verse is a quotation from Isaiah 42:1-3 . It was not among the least wonders of Christ's earthly life that while his untiring step paced the flinty path of duty often so anguished, and always so hard. with reality, that step made the plants of a date earlier by far reappear and blossom, and yield their sweet fragrance at his feet. The Old Testament may be said to be continually flowering and fruiting in the New. St. Matthew here tells us where Christ now was,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 12:21

And in his Name shall the Gentiles trust; hope (Revised Version). The evangelist thus completes the parallelism with the end of the first stanza ( Matthew 12:18 ) However Jews treat Messiah, Gentiles shall place their hope in his Name, which, in fact, sums up for man all that can be known of God ( Matthew 6:9 , note). In his Name. So even the LXX . But the Hebrew, "in his Law." ὀνόματι is possibly due to a confusion with νόμῳ , but is more probably merely a paraphrase... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 12:8

For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day - To crown all, Christ says that he was Lord of the Sabbath. He had a right to direct the manner of its observance - undoubted proof that he is divine. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 12:9-13

The account contained in these verses is recorded also in Mark 3:1-5, and Luke 6:6-10.Matthew 12:10A man which had his hand withered - This was probably one form of the palsy. See Barnes Mt 4:24.Mark and Luke have mentioned some circumstances omitted by Matthew. They say that Jesus addressed the man, and told him to stand forth in the midst. He then addressed the people. He asked them if it was lawful to do good on the Sabbath day? This was admitted by all their teachers, and it could not be... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 12:14-21

This account is found also in Mark 3:6-12.Matthew 12:14The Pharisees ... held a council ... - Mark adds that the Herodians also took a part in this plot. They were probably a “political” party attached firmly to Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, tetrarch of Galilee. He was the same man who had imprisoned and beheaded John the Baptist, and to whom the Saviour, when arraigned, was sent by Pilate. See the notes at Luke 3:1. He was under Roman authority, and was a strong advocate of Roman... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 12:7-8

Matthew 12:7-8. But if ye had known what that meaneth If ye had known the intent of that scripture, Hosea 6:6, I will have mercy, &c. That is, I always prefer acts of mercy before matters of positive institution, when in any instance they interfere with each other; and even before all ceremonial institutions whatever; because these being only means of religion, are suspended, of course, if circumstances occur wherein they clash with love, which is the end of it: ye would not have... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 12:10

Matthew 12:10. There was a man which had his hand withered The nerves and sinews of it being shrunk up, so that it was entirely useless. And they Namely, the scribes and Pharisees, who had either mixed with the crowd that followed Jesus, or were in the synagogue before he came; asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? They made this inquiry merely that they might find matter whereon to ground an accusation against him. For they fully expected he would say that it was... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 12:11-13

Matthew 12:11-13. And he said That he might show their unreasonableness, and confute them by their own practice: What man that shall have Or, Who, if he have but one sheep, that on the sabbath day shall fall into a pit, and it be in danger of perishing there, will not lay hold on it, &c. The stress of the question does not lie on supposing a man to have only one sheep, but on one only falling into a pit; and yet, for the comparatively small value of that one, his not scrupling to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 12:14-15

Matthew 12:14-15. Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him They were so incensed at the affront which they imagined they had received, in our Lord’s neglecting their censure, and intimating his knowledge of the evil purposes of their hearts, (Luke 6:8,) that they were no longer able to bear the place, and therefore withdrew. Luke says, They were filled with madness, and communed with one another what they might do to Jesus; or, as Matthew and Mark express it, how they... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 12:16-21

Matthew 12:16-21 . And charged them that they should not make him known Partly that he might avoid the envy and rage of his persecutors, and partly because the time was not yet come for him to declare himself openly to be the Messiah. That it might be fulfilled, &c. Here the evangelist assigns another reason why the Lord Jesus prosecuted his ministry in this humble, meek, quiet, and unostentatious way: it was, that he might fulfil Isaiah’s prophecy, Isaiah 42:1-4, in which it was... read more

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