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Matthew 15:33
And His disciples say unto Him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness as to fill so great a multitude?
And His disciples say unto Him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness as to fill so great a multitude?
Verse 33. _WHENCE SHOULD WE HAVE SO MUCH BREAD IN THE_ _WILDERNESS_, C.] Human _foresight_, even in the followers of Christ, is very short. In a thousand instances, if we supply not its deficiency by...
The miracle recorded here - the feeding of the four thousand - took place on a mountain near the Sea of Galilee. The same account is recorded in Mark 8:1. The circumstances of the miracle are so simil...
3. THE CORRUPTION OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES; THE CANAANITISH WOMAN AND HER FAITH; THE MULTITUDES HEALED. CHAPTER 15 1. The Question of the Scribes and Pharisees.(Matthew 15:1 .) 2. His Answer. (M...
THE SECOND FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE (Mark 8:1 *) Mt. follows Mk. closely, but again adds women and children. I would not send them away fasting (Matthew 15:32), according to Allen, heightens the note...
And Jesus left there, and went to the Sea of Galilee; and he went up into a mountain, and he was sitting there; and great crowds came to him, bringing with them people who were lame and blind and deaf...
CLEAN AND UNCLEAN (Matthew 15:1-9)...
WE. Emphatic, as are the words which follow. THE WILDERNESS. a desert place. These are emphatic also, in addition to "we". FILL. satisfy....
Four thousand Men, besides women and children, are miraculously fed Mark 8:1-9 36. _gave to his disciples_ St Matthew uses the aorist, St Mark the more vivid imperfect "kept giving....
FOUR THOUSAND MEN, BESIDES WOMEN AND CHILDREN, ARE MIRACULOUSLY FED Mark 8:1-9...
Ver 32. Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fa...
_MORE REASON TO CHANGE YOUR HEART MATTHEW 15:32-39_ : The multitude had been listening to Jesus three days without eating. He had compassion on them and did not want to send them away hungry and faint...
ΠΌΘΕΝ (G4159) где. ΉΜΊΝ _dat. pl._ от ΕΓΏ (G1473); _dat._ интереса: "где бы нам...?" ΤΟΣΟΎΤΟΣ (G5118) _пот. pl._ так много, ΧΟΡΤΆΣΑΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΧΟΡΤΆΖΩ (G5526) удовлетворять, насыщать. _Inf....
I HAVE COMPASSION ON THE MULTITUDE— Σπλαγχνιζομαι, a very expressive word, signifying _My bowels yearn,_ or _are moved,_ see ch. Matthew 9:36. It is pleasing to remark the strong compassion which our...
SECTION 38 JESUS HEALS MANY IN DECAPOLIS AND FEEDS FOUR THOUSAND (Parallel: Mark 7:31 to Mark 8:9) TEXT: 15:29-39 29 And Jesus departed then, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and he went up in...
And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 7:31; Mark 8:1. Verse 1-12 For the...
21 Compare Mar_7:24-30. 21 The incident of the Canaanitish woman is of surpassing interest to us, for it shows clearly what was the status of the nations in our Lord's ministry. Her very mistakes are...
THE TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS. THE CANAANITISH WOMAN. FEEDING THE FOUR THOUSAND 1-20. Unwashed hands and the traditions of the elders (Mark 7:1). In this important controversy Jesus defined His positio...
FEEDING THE FOUR THOUSAND (Mark 8:1). The multitudes in this case being heathen (see Matthew 15:31), the miracle is no bare repetition of the feeding of the five thousand (Matthew 14:13). That symboli...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 The three sections of chapter 15 show Jesus’ attitude to people who were not *Jews. He wanted them to be happy with the good news...
HIS DISCIPLES SAY UNTO HIM. — Here, on the assumption that we are dealing with a true record, a difficulty of another kind meets us. How was it, we ask, that the disciples, with the memory of the form...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
τοσοῦτοι, ὥστε χορτάσαι. ὥστε with infinitive may be used to express a consequence involved in the essence or quality of an object or action, therefore after τοσοῦτος and similar words; _vide_ Kühner,...
_Second feeding_ (Mark 8:1-9)....
MINISTERING TO THE MULTITUDES Matthew 15:29-39 Our Lord's mission of grace and truth was at its height. His help was sought with the utmost eagerness. Large numbers of sick were cast at His feet in h...
The question was not of cleanliness, but of ritual. This washing of hands to remove imaginary evil was a part of the tradition of the elders. Against the binding of such burdens on men our Lord passio...
FEEDING THE MULTITUDES AGAIN Matthew 15:32-38; Mark 8:1-9. “During these days [i.e., His sojourn in Decapolis], the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus, calling to Him...
"And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. (30) And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame,...
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...
33._Whence shall we obtain so many loaves in a solitary place? _The disciples manifest excessive stupidity in not remembering, at least, that earlier proof of the power and grace of Christ, which they...
chapter 15 displays man and God, the moral contrast between the doctrine of Christ and that of the Jews; and thus the Jewish system is rejected morally by God. When I speak of the system, I speak of t...
AND HIS DISCIPLES SAID UNTO HIM,.... The former miracle of feeding five thousand men, besides women and children, with five loaves and two fishes, being quite out of their thoughts, they reply, WHENC...
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? Ver. 33. _Whence should we have, &c._] See their stupidity and diffidence, yet...
_Jesus called his disciples, and said, I have compassion_, &c. For some observations on the contents of these verses, see the notes on Mark 8:1....
After the power and grace of the Lord Jesus has wrought so great, refreshing blessing, the cold, barren criticism of scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem is an example of how the deadening principle of...
29-39 Whatever our case is, the only way to find ease and relief, is to lay it at Christ's feet, to submit it to him, and refer it to his disposal. Those who would have spiritual healing from Christ,...
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Matthew 15:33 Then G2532 His G846 disciples G3101 said G3004 (G5719) Him G846 Where G4159 we G2254 enough...
THE FEEDING OF FOUR THOUSAND IN GENTILE TERRITORY BY A MIRACLE (15:32-39). It was one thing for Jesus to preach and heal in Gentile territory where there were many Jews, while allowing Gentiles to sha...
‘And the disciples say to him, “From where should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a crowd?” ' The disciples clearly did not consider that it was likely that there could be...
Matthew 15:32-38. This miracle is not identical with that described in chap. Matthew 14:15-21. The circumstances vary in every possible respect: the number fed, the amount of provision present, the fr...
Matthew 15:33. WHENCE SHOULD WE HAVE SO MANY LOAVES. The question may seem strange after the miraculous feeding of the five thousand. But it was not so strange as their subsequent reasoning about the...
AND THE DISCIPLES SAY TO HIM (κα λεγουσιν αυτω ο μαθητα). It seems strange that they should so soon have forgotten the feeding of the five thousand (Matthew 14:13-21), but they did. Soon Jesus will...
Matthew 15:33 Christ's direction was, "How many loaves have ye?" And of this sentence it has been strikingly observed that it is characteristic of the way in which all Christ's nature was wont to move...
Jesus had been in conflict with the Scribes and Pharisees. He never liked such discussions, and though he was always victorious in every controversy, it grieved his spirit. Matthew 15:21. _Then Jesus...
Matthew 15:1. then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread....
Matthew 15:1. _Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,_ Our Lord had been busily engaged in healing the sick, and now these pettifoggers came round about him to try...
CONTENTS: Scribes and Pharisees rebuked. Syrophonecian's daughter healed. The multitude healed. 4000 fed. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Peter, (disciples), Syrophonecian woman, her daughter. CONCLUSION: The Ch...
Matthew 15:2. _Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?_ The cabala, or unwritten law, was counted by the pharisees of equal authority with the law itself. Rabbi Aquiba says, he wh...
WHERE WILL WE FIND ENOUGH FOOD? Their question is a hint to Jesus to perform a miracle....
JESUS FEEDS FOUR THOUSAND MATTHEW 15:32-39; MARK 8:1-10; MATTHEW 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples [_unto him_], and said, Mark 8:1 In
CHAPTER 15 _Then there came to Him_, &c. The Scribes of Jerusalem, as being at the very fountain head of faith and religion, arrogated to them selves the right of censuring the doctrine of new teache...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 15:29. A MOUNTAIN.—Rather, _the_ mountain country; the high land, as distinguished from the low land, which He had left (_Carr_). From Mark 7:31 R.V., it would appear that Hi...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 15:1 _Discourse concerning ceremonial pollution. _(Mark 7:1.) MATTHEW 15:1 THEN. This is after the third Passover, which wheth
Then came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees, which were from Jerusalem (Matthew 15:1), Hey, these guys had come a long way to challenge Him. They came all the way from Jerusalem clear up to Galilee, whi...
2 Kings 4:42; John 6:5; John 6:8; John 6:9; Luke 9:13;...