Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Matthew 7:10
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? - like it, indeed, but only to sting him.
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? - like it, indeed, but only to sting him.
ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU ... - There are here three different forms presented of seeking the things which we need from God - asking, ‘seeking, and knocking. The latter is taken from the act of k...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Judgment of Righteousness.(Matthew 7:1 .) 2. Warning against False Prophets.(Matthew 7:15 .) 3. Warning against False Professors. (Matthew 7:21 .)_ The chapter which follows contai...
THE VALUE OF PRAYER. An interpolation with no relation to the context. It is more suitably placed in Luke 11:9. The emphasis is on asking, seeking, knocking; no conditions or limitations are mentioned...
IF HIS SON ASK BREAD, WILL HE GIVE HIM. STONE? The assurance of an answer to prayer is based on the fact that God is our Father. He treats his children on the same principles that. good and wise earth...
THE ERROR OF JUDGMENT (Matthew 7:1-5)...
Keep on asking, and it will be given you; Keep on seeking, and you will find; Keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone that asks receives; And he who seeks finds; And to him who kn...
IF HE ASK. All read "if he shall ask". A FISH. a fish also....
Ἢ ΚΑῚ ἸΧΘῪΝ ΑἸΤΉΣΕΙ. See Critical Notes. Regarding the construction as independent, translate (1) ‘Or again (the son) will ask a fish—will (the father) give him a serpent?’ or (2) understanding the re...
C. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM, 1–27 After contrasting the New Law with the Mosaic Law and with Pharisaic rules and conduct, Jesus proceeds to lay down rules for the guidance of His disciples in th...
VER 9. "OR WHAT MAN IS THERE OF YOU, WHOM IF HIS SON ASK BREAD, WILL HE GIVE HIM A STONE? 10. OR IF HE ASK A FISH, WILL HE GIVE HIM A SERPENT? 11. IF YE THEN, BEING EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS U...
_JESUS SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY ABOUT PRAYING MATTHEW 7:7-12_ : Prayer is pictured in different ways in the Bible. In Matthew six prayer is pictured as our duty toward God. In Matthew seven prayer is pict...
ΙΧΘΎΣ (G2486) рыба, ΌΦΙΣ (G3789) змея. Камни на берегу и, возможно, водные змеи напрашивались в качестве замены (McNeile)....
DISCOURSE: 1329 GOD’S READINESS TO GIVE HIS HOLY SPIRIT Matthew 7:9. _Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent...
F. THE DANGERS FACING THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 7:1-27; Luke 6:37-49) 3. THE DANGER OF FAILING TO RECOGNIZE GOD'S PROVISION. TEXT: 7:7-11 7. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall...
14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26. 14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7), not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel failed at this point. Their forgi...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONCLUDED) The connexion of thought in this chapter is less close than in the earlier part of the sermon, and the whole chapter bears the appearance of an appendix of miscell...
ON URGENCY IN PRAYER, AND HOW GOD REWARDS IT (Luke 11:9). God always answers urgent prayer. Every asker receives, every seeker finds. Yet not every asker receives what he asks, nor every seeker finds...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 DO NOT BE JUDGES OF OTHER PEOPLE 7:1-6 V1 ‘Do not be judges of other people. If you do, God will be your judge. V2 In the same way...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Admonition to prayer_ : presupposes deferred answer to prayer, tempting to doubt as to its utility, and consequent discontinuance of the practice. A lesson more natural at a later stage, when the dis...
JUDGING SELF; ASKING GOD; SERVING OTHERS Matthew 7:1-12 There is abundant need for a right and sound judgment, illumined by the Spirit of truth; but there is a world of difference between it and the...
After thus enunciating the laws of the Kingdom, and bringing men into the realm of direct dealing with God, the King authoritatively set up the standard of judgment. No man is to be his brother's judg...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
I pass over the several most blessed things which the Lord Jesus here treats of, as being in themselves so plain, and by Him so beautifully expressed, as to render all explanation unnecessary. But I d...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
There are two things connected with the presence of the multitude, Matthew 5:1. First, the time required that the Lord should give a true idea of the character of His kingdom, since already He drew th...
OR IF HE ASK A FISH, WILL HE GIVE HIM A SERPENT?] Which is somewhat like a fish, especially an eel. Fish and bread are mentioned, because these were common food; see Mark 6:41 John 21:13 and particul...
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? Ver. 10. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 7:9 _"_...
_Ask_, &c. The exhortation contained in these verses may be considered as connected with the caution given in those immediately preceding, and then the sense of it will be, If you be at a loss to know...
A parable to bring home this truth:...
OR IF HE ASK A FISH, WILL HE GIVE HIM A SERPENT?...
Simple honesty will understand these first five verses without difficulty. The word "judge" is used in various different ways in Scripture. Believers are told to "judge" what Paul says (1 Corinthians...
7-11 Prayer is the appointed means for obtaining what we need. Pray; pray often; make a business of prayer, and be serious and earnest in it. Ask, as a beggar asks alms. Ask, as a traveller asks the...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 7:11"....
Matthew 7:10 Or G2532 if G1437 asks G154 (G5661) fish G2486 give G3361 G1929 (G5692) him...
Or what man is there of you, Who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, Will give him a stone; Or if he will ask for a fish, Will give him a serpent? He then gives them examples in order to strengt...
THE MEANS BY WHICH THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIANIC AGE THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF HIS PEOPLE (7:7-12). Having outlined in some depths the Messianic interpretation...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
CONNECTION and CONTENTS. The connection is not obvious; no theory can be insisted upon. Various views: (1) No connection intended. (2) Matthew 7:7 is connected with the last chapter, while Matthew 7:1...
Matthew 7:10. A SERPENT. A response both deceptive and hurtful. We often deem the bread a stone, and the fish a serpent, misunderstanding God's good gifts....
FISH--SERPENT (ιχθυν--οφιν). Fish, common article of food, and water-snakes could easily be substituted. Anacoluthon in this sentence in the Greek....
Matthew 7:7 I. Our Lord enjoins us here to pray; and He assures us that we shall not pray in vain. It does not indeed follow that God will grant any and every thing we may choose to ask; for there are...
Matthew 7:7. _Ask, and it shall be given you;_ He that will not ask for it deserves to go without it. Have you ever asked for it? If not, whose fault is it that you have it not? Matthew 7:7. _Seek,...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again._ Some people are of a censorious...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._ You are not called to judge; you are not qualified to judge: «God is the Judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.» There is much better wor...
While we are reading, let us also be adoring at the same time, for the. words of Christ have a gracious divinity about them; they are infinite; they are omnipotent. There is a kind of life in them; a...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Encouragement to prayer. The two ways. Warnings against false teachers. Danger of profession without faith. The two foundations. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONC...
Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._ This refers to private and censorious reproaches of others. We must judge nothing before the time. It is better that ten bad men pass for innocent, tha...
WOULD ANY OF YOU. God is our Father, and therefore he will answer our prayers. No father would mock his child by giving him a stone for bread, or a snake for a fish. Bread and fish were the most commo...
_How much more shall your Father._ THE HEAVENLY AND THE EARTHLY PARENT I. The facts which our text recognizes. 1. The moral condition of earthly parents-“evil.” 2. The natural affection of earthly...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 7:7 ASK... SEEK... KNOCK. Disciples should come to God in humility and awareness of their need. They should actively pursue God’s will and persist in prayer. They can be confid...
CHAPTER 7 _Judge not_, rashly and malignantly, _that ye_, &c. Christ does not here prohibit the public judgments of magistrates, by which they condemn the guilty and absolve the innocent, for this is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 7:3. MOTE.—The Greek noun so translated means a stalk, or twig. The illustration seems to have been a familiar one among the Jews, and a proverb all but verbally identical is...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 7:1 (2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards (Matthew 6:19), so does censoriousness manwards (Matthew 7:1), our Lord thus tacitly op
MATTHEW 7:1-29 I believe that it goes without saying that Jesus Christ was certainly the greatest teacher who ever lived and it is interesting to study his teaching habits. And He used the method of d...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) Matthew 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that we should not judge one another. There is probably no sin qui...