Matthew 19:1,2
ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. The final departure from Galilee:... [ Continue Reading ]
ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. The final departure from Galilee:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT WHEN JESUS HAD FINISHED THESE SAYINGS, HE DEPARTED FROM GALILEE, AND CAME INTO THE COASTS OF JUDEA, BEYOND JORDAN;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GREAT MULTITUDES FOLLOWED HIM, AND HE HEALED THEM THERE. Galilee's day of grace was at its end. Jesus had fulfilled all things that He had intended for the people of the northern country. Even the last lesson, with its impressive sayings, had been given to the disciples only. The time of Christ... [ Continue Reading ]
The question of the Pharisees: THE PHARISEES ALSO CAME UNTO HIM, EMPTING HIM AND SAYING UNTO HIM, IS IT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO PUT AWAY HIS WIFE FOR EVERY CAUSE? Their persecution did not cease now that Jesus had deliberately turned His back to them and even left Galilee. They are in a class by themsel... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE NOT READ THAT HE WHICH MADE THEM AT THE BEGINNING MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID, FOR THIS CAUSE SHALL A MAN LEAVE FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE; AND THEY TWAIN SHALL BE ONE FLESH?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE THEY ARE NO MORE TWAIN, BUT ONE FLESH. WHAT, THEREFORE, GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER, LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER. The Pharisees, as usual, find the tables turned upon them. Christ is too firmly grounded in the truth of the Old Testament. They had been so sure that there was no way out of the dile... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SAY UNTO HIM, WHY DID MOSES, THEN, COMMAND TO GIVE A WRITING OF DIVORCEMENT, AND TO PUT HER AWAY?... [ Continue Reading ]
An objection and its answer:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAITH UNTO THEM, MOSES, BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF YOUR HEARTS, SUFFERED YOU TO PUT AWAY YOUR WIVES; BUT FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS NOT SO.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, EXCEPT IT BE FOR FORNICATION, AND SHALL MARRY ANOTHER, COMMITTETH ADULTERY; AND WHOSO MARRIETH HER WHICH IS PUT AWAY DOTH COMMIT ADULTERY. The Pharisees' reference is to Deuteronomy 24:1. But they understood neither the intention nor the words o... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS DISCIPLES SAY UNTO HIM, IF THE CASE OF THE MAN BE SO WITH HIS WIFE, IT IS NOT GOOD TO MARRY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The dismay of the disciples:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, ALL MEN CANNOT RECEIVE THIS SAYING, SAVE THEY TO WHOM IT IS GIVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THERE ARE SOME EUNUCHS WHICH WERE SO BORN FROM THEIR MOTHER'S WOMB; AND THERE ARE SOME EUNUCHS WHICH WERE MADE EUNUCHS OF MEN; AND THERE BE EUNUCHS WHICH HAVE MADE THEMSELVES EUNUCHS FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN'S SAKE. HE THAT IS ABLE TO RECEIVE IT, LET HIM RECEIVE IT. The Jews of Christ's time ha... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST BLESSING LITTLE CHILDREN. THEN WERE THERE BROUGHT UNTO HIM LITTLE CHILDREN THAT HE SHOULD PUT HIS HANDS ON THEM AND PRAY; AND THE DISCIPLES REBUKED THEM. The ministry of Jesus was by no means limited to adults. He had only very recently used a little child to emphasize a very important truth... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS SAID, SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN, AND FORBID THEM NOT TO COME UNTO ME; FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's rebuke:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON THEM, AND DEPARTED THENCE. Jesus was openly displeased by the interference of the disciples. Let them alone, He says, do not bother them. To interfere with a child's coming to Jesus is to put an obstruction in one's own path to salvation. And hinder them not in their coming... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DANGERS OF RICHES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, ONE CAME AND SAID UNTO HIM, GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THING SHALL I DO THAT I MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD? THERE IS NONE GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD; BUT IF THOU WILT ENTER INTO LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAITH UNTO HIM, WHICH? JESUS SAID, THOU SHALT DO NO MURDER, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS,... [ Continue Reading ]
HONOR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER, AND, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. The evangelist introduces the story in a lively manner: Lo! Christ was on His journey through Perea, and the experience which Matthew had recorded in the first verses of this chapter may have been repeated often. People w... [ Continue Reading ]
THE YOUNG MAN SAITH UNTO HIM, ALL THESE THINGS HAVE I KEPT FROM MY YOUTH UP; WHAT LACK I YET?... [ Continue Reading ]
The test:... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, IF THOU WILT BE PERFECT, GO AND SELL ALL THAT THOU HAST, AND GIVE TO THE POOR, AND THOU SHALT HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN; AND COME AND FOLLOW ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE YOUNG MAN HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WENT AWAY SORROWFUL; FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS. Christ's recital of the second table had not so much as stirred a ripple in the self-righteous equanimity of the young man. He was so steeped in his good opinion of himself that it would take a strong wre... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT A RICH MAN SHALL HARDLY ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The lesson:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN I SAY UNTO YOU, IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN HIS DISCIPLES HEARD IT, THEY WERE EXCEEDINGLY AMAZED, SAYING, WHO THEN CAN BE SAVED?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS BEHELD THEM, AND SAID UNTO THEM, WITH MEN THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. The incident of the rich young man had made a deep impression also upon Jesus. As usual, He makes application of the lesson which He drew from the happening for His disciples. Solemnly He de... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REWARD OF THE APOSTLES. Peter's question: THEN ANSWERED PETER AND SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, WE HAVE FORSAKEN ALL AND FOLLOWED THEE; WHAT SHALL WE HAVE THEREFORE? There may have been a trace of arrogance and self-satisfaction in Peter's tone as he addressed this question to Jesus. He had heard the... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer: AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT YE WHICH HAVE FOLLOWED ME, IN THE REGENERATION WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL SIT IN THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY, YE ALSO SHALL SIT UPON TWELVE THRONES, JUDGING THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. Jesus does not take occasion here to explain once mo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND EVERY ONE THAT HATH FORSAKEN HOUSES, OR BRETHREN, OR SISTERS, OR FATHER, OR MOTHER, OR WIFE, OR CHILDREN, OR LANDS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE SHALL RECEIVE AN HUNDREDFOLD, AND SHALL INHERIT EVERLASTING LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The application to all Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT MANY THAT ARE FIRST SHALL BE LAST, AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST. Most impressively Jesus details the persons and goods which usually claim the affection of people in this world. The recital serves to bring out all the more emphatically the denial of self, which is a demand of Christ. For the sake... [ Continue Reading ]