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Matthew 12:7
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Verse Matthew 12:7. _I WILL HAVE MERCY, C._] See this explained, Matthew 9:13. There are _four_ ways in which _positive laws_ may cease to oblige. First, by the natural law of _necessity_. Secondly,...
ONE GREATER THAN THE TEMPLE - Here the Saviour refers to himself, and to his own dignity and power. “I have power over the laws; I can grant to my disciples a dispensation from those laws. An act whic...
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...
SABBATH OBSERVANCE (Mark 2:23 *, Luke 6:1). The incident shows that the disciples were learning their Master's teaching. Deuteronomy 23:25 allowed the practice, but the Rabbinical objection to it on t...
BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT THIS MEANETH. They ought to have known, for they professed to be interpreters of the law, but in their slavery to forms and traditions, they had been blind to the spirit of t...
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...
At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, ...
IF, &C. Implying that it was not the fact. See App-118. Not the same condition as in verses: Matthew 12:11; Matthew 12:26; Matthew 12:27;...
_I will have mercy, and not sacrifice_ Quoted a second time, SEE ch. Matthew 9:13. There is something more binding than the Law, and that is the principle which underlies the Law. The Law rightly unde...
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...
7. ἔλεος for ἔλεον; in these instances the _textus receptus_ represents an unauthorised change to an easier construction or a more usual grammatical form. 7. ΕἸ ΔῈ ἘΓΝΏΚΕΙΤΕ. This form of the conditi...
THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH...
Ver 1. At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. 2. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto...
_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...
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I WILL HAVE MERCY, &C.— _I delight in mercy_ (so θελειν signifies, ch. Matthew 27:43.), _more than sacrifice;_ for this is the Hebrew form of comparison. See the note on ch. Matthew 9:13. Works of mer...
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...
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT [THIS] MEANETH, I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE...
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'...
12:7 is. (e-7) See ch. 9.13....
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...
I WILL HAVE MERCY] Hosea 6:6, quoted also Matthew 9:13. Here the meaning is that God is satisfied if men keep the sabbath in the right spirit, i.e. as a day of holy rest. He does not demand obedience...
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...
I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE. — Yet a third argument follows from the Old Testament (Hosea 6:6). The teachers or interpreters of the Law had failed to catch the meaning of the simplest utteran...
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'...
he principle of human need stated in terms of a favourite prophetic oracle (Matthew 9:13). εἰ δὲ ἐγνώκειτε … οὐκ ἂν κατεδικάσατε : the form of expression, a past indicative in protasis, with a past in...
_The principles involved_. The facts stated raise questions as to the reasons. The Pharisees were men of rules, not accustomed to go back on principles. The passion for minutiæ killed reflection. The...
_Christ's defence_. It is twofold. (1) He shields disciples by examples: David and the priests; to both the faultfinders would defer (Matthew 12:3-5); (2) He indicates the principles involved in the e...
_Plucking ears of corn on the Sabbath_ (Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5). Sabbath observance was one of the leading causes of conflict between Jesus and the guardians of religion and morality. This is the fi...
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...
_Mercy, and not sacrifice. (Osee vi. 6.) The meaning of this is, if you then approve of the mercy of the high priest, who refreshed the famished fugitive David, why do you condemn my disciples? (St. J...
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...
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...
7._But if you knew _This _Third _argument is also mentioned by Matthew alone. Christ conveys an indirect reproof to the Pharisees, for not considering why ceremonies were appointed, and to what object...
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...
BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT THIS MEANETH, c,] The passage of Scripture in Hosea 6:6 I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE of the sense of which, SEE GILL "MT 9:13" ye would not have condemned the guilt...
But if ye had known what _this_ meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. Ver. 7. _But if ye had known_] And it was a foul shame for them not to know....
_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,...
MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE; see note on chap Matthew 9:13. The fourth commandment always allowed men on the Sabbath-day to relieve the distressed, to feed the hungry, and to perform all those labors whi...
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...
1-8 Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn: the law of God allowed it, Deuteronomy 23:25. This was slender provision for Christ and his disciples; but they were conte...
Neither Mark nor Luke have this argument. Our Lord yet goeth on taxing these great doctors of ignorance. The text he quotes is HOSEA 6:6; we met with it before quoted by our Saviour, MATTHEW 9:13. The...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Besides, our Lord also exhorted them to the same effect, when He said, "But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not h...
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THE INCIDENT IN THE GRAINFIELDS (12:1-8). The first incident arises when Jesus and His disciples are walking through some grainfields. Being hungry they pluck some of the grain, and eat it. This is t...
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...
“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice', you would not have condemned the guiltless.” Having laid His claim Jesus now appeals to the conscience. Had the Pharisees kn...
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 12:7. BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN. They ought to have known, professing to interpret the Old Testament. I WILL HAVE MERCY, etc. Quoted before (chap. Matthew 9:13), from Hosea 6:6. Our Lord properly c...
THE GUILTLESS (τους αναιτιους). So in verse Matthew 12:5. Common in ancient Greek. No real ground against, it means αν + αιτιος. Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6 here as he did in Matthew 9:13. A pertinent pr...
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...
THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. They said that they obeyed the scriptures. Jesus argues that kindness to the hungry pleases God more than the animal sacrifices on the altar in the temple....
_I will have mercy, and not sacrifice._ MERCY, NOT SACRIFICE When St. Spyridion was about eighty years old, it happened that a traveller came to visit him at one of those periods of the year when it...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:7 “I DESIRE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE.” See note on 9:13....
THE DISCIPLES PICK WHEAT ON THE SABBATH MATTHEW 12:1-8; MARK 2:23-28; LUKE 6:1-5; MATTHEW 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day throug
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 12:1. PLUCK THE EARS OF CORN.—See Deuteronomy 23:25. Matthew 12:3. WHAT DAVID DID.—David’s action was not an apparent contravention of the Sabbath-law, but an apparent contra...
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...
Acts 13:27; Hosea 6:6; Isaiah 1:11; James 5:6; Job 32:3;...
I will have mercy and not sacrifice — That is, when they interfere with each other, I always prefer acts of mercy, before matters of positive institution: yea, before all ceremonial institutions whate...
Learn hence, That the law of mercy is much more excellent than the law of ceremonies; and where both cannot be observed, the less must give place to the greater. God never intended that the ceremonies...