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Matthew 4:14-16
The evangelist locates the city only sufficiently exactly to pave the way for another prophetic reference:
The evangelist locates the city only sufficiently exactly to pave the way for another prophetic reference:
THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED ... - This place is recorded in Isaiah 9:1. Matthew has given the sense, but not the very words of the prophet. For the meaning of the passage as employed by Isaiah, see the...
4. THE TESTING OF THE KING AND HIS TESTIMONY. _ 1. The Testing by the Devil. (Matthew 4:1 .) 2. His Testimony and His Disciples. (Matthew 4:12 .) 3. The Powers of the Kingdom. (Matthew 4:23 .)_ CHAP...
JESUS ANNOUNCES THE KINGDOM IN GALILEE (Mark 1:14 f.*, Luke 4:14 f.) More precisely than Mk., Mt. gives John's arrest by Herod Antipas as the reason why Jesus began to preach. Galilee was part of Anti...
THE TESTING TIME (Matthew 4:1-11) Step by step Matthew unfolds the story of Jesus. He begins by showing us how Jesus was born into this world. He goes on to show us, at least by implication, that Jes...
When Jesus heard that John had been delivered into the hands of the authorities, he withdrew into Galilee. He left Galilee and came and made his home in Capernaum, which is on the lake-side, in the di...
THAT. In order that. SPOKEN. As well as written. BY. by means of. Greek. _dia._ ESAIAS. Isaiah....
_Esaias_ Read the whole of the prophecy (ch. Matthew 8:11 to Matthew 9:6) which is unfortunately broken in the E. V. by the division into Chapter s....
Jesus returns into Galilee Mark 1:14; Luke 4:14, who assigns no reason; John 4:1-3. St John gives a further reason "when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more di...
ΔΙᾺ ἩΣΑΪ́ΟΥ. Read the whole of the prophecy (Isaiah 8:11 to Isaiah 9:6) which is unfortunately broken in the E.V. by the division into Chapter s, and is more mistranslated than any other passage of l...
JESUS RETURNS INTO GALILEE Mark 1:14; Luke 4:14, who assigns no reason; John 4:1-3. St John gives a further reason ‘when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more di...
Ver 12. Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, He departed into Galilee; 13. And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabu...
_JESUS WAS A PREACHING SAVIOR MATTHEW 4:12-17:_ Gospel preaching brings people out of darkness into God's marvelous light. Without the gospel people sit "in the region and shadow of death." The good n...
ΊΝΑ (G2443) с _conj._ выражает результат, чтобы. Божественная предначертанность (Meyer), ΠΛΗΡΩΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) наполнять, исполнять, ΡΗΘΈΝ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G2192) г...
THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH— _Whereby was fulfilled that which. Matthew 4:15. By the way of the sea, beyond Jordan_] _Situate on the Jordan, near the sea._ Campbell. _By the way of the sea_ is ra...
SECTION 8. JESUS PREACHES IN GALILEE (Parallels: Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:14 to Luke 5:1; John 4:1-45) TEXT: 4:12-17 12. Now when he heard that John
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY ESAIAS THE PROPHET (Matthew 9:1, or, as in Heb. 8:23 , and ), "saying,...
16-17 Compare Joh_1:32-34. 16 As God's Spirit has no material form it is figured to us in various ways, which suggest its force and significance. It is usually presented as a blast of air, for this is...
4:14 saying, (a-13) Isaiah 9:1 ,Isaiah 9:2 ....
THE TEMPTATION 1-11. The temptation (Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1). The narrative, which can only have come from our Lord's own lips, describes an actual historical fact, the great temptation which He underwen...
BEGINNING OF THE GALILEAN MINISTRY (Mark 1:14; Luke 4:14; Luke 4:31). It might be thought from the synoptic account that Jesus began His Galilean ministry immediately after His Baptism and Temptation....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 THE DEVIL TESTS JESUS 4:1-11 V1 The *Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert. The devil tested Jesus while he was there. V2 For 40 d...
The light in which the fact of the migration presented itself to St. Matthew was, as with other facts, that it agreed with what had been spoken by a prophet. The abode of Nazareth had thus fulfilled o...
CHAPTER 6 Beginning of His Galilean Ministry - Matthew 4:12. DID our Lord's ministry begin in Galilee? If so, why did He not Himself set the example of "beginning at Jerusalem?" As a matter of fact w...
Jesus chose Capernaum as best suited for His work. There He was in the heart of the world, in a busy town, and near others, on the shore of a sea that was full of fish, and on a great international hi...
_Beginnings of the Galilean ministry_ (Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:14-15). In a few rapid strokes the evangelist describes the opening of the Messianic work of Jesus in Galilee. He has in view the great Serm...
THE LIGHT BEGINS TO SHINE Matthew 4:12-17 Our Lord's earliest ministry seems to have been centered in Jerusalem and its contiguous villages. See John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36. But on the news of the Bapt...
"Then." After the heavens opened, hell is opened. The King must not only be in perfect harmony with the order and beauty of the heavens, He must face all the disorder and ugliness of the abyss. Goodne...
JESUS REJECTED AT NAZARETH, MIGRATES TO CAPERNAUM Luke 4:16-31; Matthew 4:13-16. “He came into Nazareth, where he was brought up, and according to the custom to Him on the Sabbath-day, He came into th...
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. These are sweet views of JESUS in his humbleness of character. And what a...
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...
Having thus, in grace, taken up His position as man on earth, He commences His earthly career, being led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The righteous and holy man, the S...
Ver. 14, 15. THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN,.... Christ's dwelling in Capernaum accomplished a prophecy of the prophet Isaiah 9:1 and he went and dwelt there, that it might be fulfilled w...
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Ver. 14. _That it might be fulfilled, &c._] The two Testaments may be fitly resembled to the double doors of the temple, one...
_That it might be fulfilled._ Or, whereby was fulfilled, _that which was spoken by Esaias_ Namely, Isaiah 9:1, where see the notes. _The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim_, &c. Isaiah, in th...
FULFILLED; ISAIAH 9:1-2. Esaias in Greek is the same as Isaiah in Hebrew....
There could be no doubt therefore that He would fulfil this virtual pledge to bear their sins on Calvary. Notice too that the Father approves Him in this unqualified way before His being tested by Sat...
12-17 It is just with God to take the gospel and the means of grace, from those that slight them and thrust them away. Christ will not stay long where he is not welcome. Those who are without Christ,...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV As Isaiah says: "Drink in this first, and be prompt, O region of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, and ye others who (inhabit) the sea-coast, and that of Jordan, Gali...
Matthew 4:14 that G2443 fulfilled G4137 (G5686) which G3588 spoken G4483 (G5685) by G1223 Isaiah G2268 prophet...
‘That it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,' Note again the emphasis that it is Isaiah's prophecy that is being ‘filled to the full'. And similarly to Luke (in Luk...
THE LIGHT COMMENCES TO SHINE, AND THE MESSIAH PREPARES FOR WORLD CONQUEST THROUGH THE WORD (4:12-22). Having determined His future course Jesus wastes no time in putting it into effect. But the death...
Matthew 4:14. THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED. The purpose of fulfilling prophecy ever involves the higher purpose of carrying out God's plan thus revealed. ISAIAH THE PROPHET (Isaiah 9:1-2). An independ...
CONTENTS AND CONNECTION. The appearance of Jesus as the light of the world amidst the darkness of the land of Galilee, in accordance with prophecy (Matthew 4:12-16). The record begins at the close of...
4:12. _Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;_ Notice that there were at that time only two great ministers of God, John the Baptist, he must go to prison...
CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus' public ministry begun. Call of first disciples. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Satan, John the Baptist, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is t...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit,_ υπο του πνευματος, the Holy Spirit, as indicated by the Greek article, and declared in the verses preseding. _Led into the wilderness,_ where he was...
TO MAKE COME TRUE. Matthew's way of saying this fulfilled prophecy. This prophecy is found in Isaiah 9:1-2....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:12 These verses mark the beginning of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. It is traditionally thought that Jesus’ ministry lasted three years: a year of obscurity, a year of popularity...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:1 Jesus the Messiah Begins to Advance the Messianic Kingdom. Jesus triumphs over the devil in the wilderness (vv. Matthew 4:1), proclaims the kingdom
Jesus preaches in Galilee Matthew 4:12-17; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:14-15; John 4:43-45;...
CHAPTER 4 _By the devil_. Syriac, _by the accuser_, Gr. _διάβολος_, _accuser_, _calumniator_. For Satan is he who accuses men before God perpetually, that he may gain them for himself and Gehenna. _T...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 4:12. CAST INTO PRISON.—_Delivered up_ (R.V.). GALILEE = a circle or circuit originally confined to a “circle” of twenty cities given by Solomon to Hiram, 1 Kings 9:11 (cf. Jo...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The Father's acceptance of the Lord's consecration of himself for the work of the kingdom does not exclude temptation, but rather necessitates it. Psychologica...
Chapter Four Then was Jesus led of the Spirit into the wilderness (Matthew 4:1) Immediately, He is now being led by the Spirit, walking after the Spirit. The New Testament has so much to say to us co...
Isaiah 9:1; Isaiah 9:2; John 15:25; John 19:28; John 19:36;...
THE FIRST DISCIPLES Matthew 4:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory we wish to speak on the wonderful privileges which belong to saints, called into comradeship with God. Where is the man or the wo...
Why does Matthew incorrectly quote Isaiah? PROBLEM: Matthew does not seem to quote Isaiah 9:1-2 accurately. Rather, he seems to have changed it. SOLUTION: It is not necessary to quote a passage verba...