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Matthew 12:11
And He said unto them, What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?
And He said unto them, What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?
Verse Matthew 12:11. _IF IT FALL INTO A PIT ON THE SABBATH-DAY_, c.] It was a canon among the Jews: "We must take a tender care of the goods of an Israelite." Hence: - "If a beast fall into a ditch,...
The account contained in these verses is recorded also in Mark 3:1, and Luke 6:6. Matthew 12:10 THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL NUMBERED - That is, each one has exerci
9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
THE SABBATH HEALING WHICH DETERMINED PHARISAIC HOSTILITY (Mark 3:1 *, Luke 6:6). Mt. makes the Pharisees utter their question, and Jesus to reply, in words found in another connexion in Lk. (Luke 14:5...
AND HE SAID, WHAT MAN... SHALL HAVE ONE SHEEP? ETC. Such an act of mercy to. beast was allowed and usual then, but the Rabbins afterward, perhaps on account of this reply, forbade anything more than ...
CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50) In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments, times and events on which the whole...
He left there and went into their synagogue. And, look you, there was a man there with a withered hand. So they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" They asked this question in order t...
AND. But. AMONG. of. Greek. _ek._ IF... ? The condition is hypothetical....
In the other Synoptic Gospels the argument is different. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life or to kill? St Matthew states the argument that bears specially on th...
Matthew 12:1-13. The Observance of the Sabbath 1. The disciples pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath. 2. A man with a withered hand cured on the Sabbath. St Mark 2:23-28; Mark 3:1-5; St...
In the other Synoptic Gospels the argument is different. ‘Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life or to kill?’ St Matthew states the argument that bears specially on t...
THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH...
Ver 9. And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: 10. And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days...
_THE PHARISEES REJECTED THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:1-21_ : The Bible is plain in showing that it is wrong to fail to be as strict as God intents. But, the Bible also shows that it is wrong to be stricter t...
ΈΣΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510). ΈΞΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь. Предполагается значение: "может ли кто-нибудь из вас представить себе, что...?" (VA, 422). ΈΆΝ (G1437) если....
THAT SHALL HAVE ONE SHEEP— _Who, if he have but one sheep that on the sabbath-day should fall into a pit, will not,_ &c. The stress is not here to be laid upon a man's having only one sheep, but upon...
SECTION 26 JESUS ANSWERS CHARGES OF SABBATH BREAKING (Parallels: Mark 2:23 to Mark 3:6; Luke 6:1-11) TEXT: 12:1-14 I. SUSPICION 1. At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grain-f...
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? AND HE SAID UNTO THE...
27 See Joh_3:35; Joh_17:2. 28 It is this God-consciousness, this recognition of His hand in all things, and more especially in that which is opposed to His apparent will, which gives His slaves heart'...
PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST 1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
ANOTHER SABBATH CONTROVERSY. THE MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND (Mark 3:1; Luke 6:6). The sequence is the same in all the evangelists. St. Luke mentions that this took place on another sabbath....
IF IT FALL INTO A PIT] The schools of Hillel and Shammai differed on this point, but it is clear from our Lord's way of referring to the practice that it was generally allowed....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14 Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law: 1. The *disciples...
WILL HE NOT LAY HOLD ON IT? — As the reasoning takes the form of an _argumentum ad hominem,_ it is clear that the act was regarded as a lawful one, even by the more rigid scribes. The Talmud discusses...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
_A Sabbath cure_ (Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11): not necessarily happening immediately after. Matthew and Luke follow Mark's order, which is topical, not historical; another instance of collision as to Sab...
_Christ's reply_, by two home-thrusting questions and an irresistible conclusion. τίς … ἄνθρωπος. One is tempted here, as in Matthew 7:9, to put emphasis on ἄνθρωπος : who of you not dead to the feeli...
THE RIGHT USE OF THE SABBATH Matthew 12:1-14 The Pharisees had introduced a large number of minute and absurd restrictions on Sabbath observance; so our Lord set Himself to recover the day of rest fo...
This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
CHAPTER 14 JESUS RETURNS TO GALILEE Matthew 12:1-18; Mark 2:23-28, and Luke 6:1-5. We find that our Lord spent but two weeks at Jerusalem during this tour, preaching and working miracles all the time...
THE WITHERED HAND Matthew 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; and Luke 6:6-11. Our Lord and His disciples have again reached Galilee, their native land. Luke notifies us that this incident transpired on the Sabbath...
"And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: (10) And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? tha...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
11._What man shall there be among you who shall have a sheep? _Christ again points out what is the true way of keeping the Sabbath; and, at the same time, reproves them for slander, in bringing as a c...
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's p...
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM,.... Well knowing their intentions, and also their usages and customs, which he was able to produce and object to them; in which, through covetousness, they showed more regard to...
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift _it_ out? Ver. 11. _What man sh...
_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...
Men often condemn in others, things which they without scruple allow in themselves....
We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
9-13 Christ shows that works of mercy are lawful and proper to be done on the Lord's day. There are more ways of doing well upon sabbath days, than by the duties of worship: attending the sick, relie...
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Matthew 12:11 Then G1161 said G2036 (G5627) them G846 What G5101 man G444 is G2071 (G5704) among...
‘And he said to them, “What man will there be of you, who will have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will not lay hold on it, and lift it out?” ' Jesus replies by posing a qu...
THE MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND (12:9-16). Having described the rejection of Himself and John by the general people, the rejection of His Messianic signs by the local towns, and the hostility of the P...
CONTROVERSY WITH THE PHARISEES ABOUT THE SABBATH. THE SON OF MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH (12:1-16). In the last passage Matthew has depicted words of Jesus concerning the heavy burden of the Law and th...
CHRONOLOGY. Mark and Luke place the events of this section just before the _choice of the Twelve_, which occurred during our Lord's retirement. The season of the year may have been April, at which tim...
Matthew 12:11. Luke introduces the reply of this verse on another occasion. It was always appropriate under such circumstances. WHAT MAN, etc. Such an act of mercy to a beast was allowed and usual t...
CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of sel...
Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
WHAT IF ONE OF YOU HAS A SHEEP? Their "strange" idea of "law" allowed them to do this....
JESUS HEALS A MAN'S HAND ON THE SABBATH MATTHEW 12:9-14; MARK 3:1-6; LUKE 6:6-11; MATTHEW 12:9 And when he was departed thence, he went into the
1-50 CHAPTER XII. _At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:10. HAND WITHERED.—Shrunk and dried by some kind of atrophy. IS IT LAWFUL, etc.—Talmudical scholars tell us that in later days the Rabbins differed on the point, but that t...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew? Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
Deuteronomy 22:4; Exodus 23:4; Exodus 23:5; Luke 13:15; Luke 14:5...