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Matthew 8:11
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
Verse Matthew 8:11. _MANY SHALL COME FROM THE EAST AND WEST_] Men of every _description_, of all _countries_, and of all _professions_; and shall _sit down_, that is, _to meat_, for this is the prope...
MANY SHALL COME FROM THE EAST ... - Jesus takes occasion from the faith of a Roman centurion to state that this conversion would not be solitary; that many pagans - many from the east and west would b...
6. THE KING MANIFESTED BY SIGNS OF DIVINE POWER. Chapter s 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5 .) 3. The Healing of P...
THE CENTURION'S SERVANT (Luke 7:1; Luke 13:28 f.; _cf._ John 4:46 to John 5:3). Lk.'s version immediately follows his account of the sermon; probably it was so in Q. Mt.
III. GENTILES AND THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM. 11. MANY SHALL COME FROM THE EAST AND WEST. The terms "the east and the west," the extreme points of the compass, are taken to indicate the regions that...
When Jesus had come into Capernaum, a centurion came to him. "Lord, he appealed to him, "my servant lies at home, paralysed, suffering terribly" He said to him: "Am I to come and cure him?" "Lord, ans...
LOVE IN ACTION (Matthew 8:1-34) Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there...
MANY. Used by Figure of speech _Euphemismos_ for _Gentiles_ (App-6), to avoid giving offence at this stage of His ministry. SIT DOWN. recline as guests (in eating, or at. feast). AND. Note the Figur...
Cure of a Centurion's Servant St Luke 7:1-10, where the incident is placed immediately after the Sermon on the Mount. The centurion sends a deputation of Jewish elders to Jesus, who speak of the wort...
_sit down_ i. e. recline at a feast. The image of a banquet is often used to represent the joy of the kingdom of heaven. Luke 14:15; Luke 22:29-30; Revelation 19:9....
ἈΝΑΤΟΛΩ͂Ν. See note ch. Matthew 2:1. ἈΝΑΚΛΙΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ, i.e. recline at a feast. The image of a banquet is often used to represent the joy of the kingdom of heaven. Luke 14:15; Luke 22:29-30;...
CURE OF A CENTURION’S SERVANT St Luke 7:1-10, where the incident is placed immediately after the Sermon on the Mount. The centurion sends a deputation of Jewish elders to Jesus, who speak of the worth...
Ver 10. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, "Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. 11. And I say unto you, That many shall come from...
_SOME MIRACLES OF JESUS MATTHEW 8:1-15:_ In Matthew 8:1-4 the great multitudes followed him. They did not follow Him with their hearts but they walked along with Him. A leper came in faith to the only...
ΉΞΟΥΣΝΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΉΚ (G2240) приходить, ΆΝΑΚΛΙΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΝΑΚΛΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G347) возлежать за столом. Речь идет о пире Мессии (BAGD; TDNT). В обычаях иудеев было возлеж...
AND I SAY UNTO YOU— From this exalted pitch of faith found in a heathen, Jesus took occasion to declare the merciful purpose which God entertained towards the Gentiles, namely, that he would accept th...
Section 13 JESUS HEALS A CENTURION'S SERVANT (Parallel: Luke 7:1-10) TEXT: 8:5-13 5. And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6. and saying, Lord,...
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, This incident belongs to a later stage. For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 7:1....
5-13 Compare Luk_7:1-10. 5 This is followed by an intimation that, though rejected by His own, He would be accepted by the nations, as is the case in the book of Acts. The priest was at one end of the...
THE LEPER CLEANSED. THE CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED. HEALING OF PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER AND MANY OTHERS. STILLING OF THE TEMPEST. HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS 1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40;...
HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT (Luke 7:1, not, however, John 4:47, q. v.). The accounts in St. Matthew and St. Luke are partly drawn from independent sources, which, though agreeing in essentials,...
SHALL SIT DOWN (lit. 'recline at table') WITH ABRAHAM, AND ISAAC, AND JACOB] The rabbis taught that the Messianic age would be ushered in by a great feast. All Israel, with its patriarchs, prophets, a...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 *MIRACLES WHEN JESUS HEALED PEOPLE 8:1–9:38 Matthew showed Jesus’ authority by what he taught in Chapter s 5-7. Now Matthew shows...
St. Luke does not give the words that follow, and the omission is significant. Either he did not know of them, and then we must infer the entire independence of his record, or knowing them, he, writin...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
This _logion_ is given by Luke (Luke 13:28-29) in a different connection, and it may not be in its historical place here. But its import is in thorough harmony with the preceding reflection on the spi...
_The centurion's son or servant_ (Luke 7:1-10). Placed by both Matthew and Luke after Sermon on Mount, by the latter immediately after....
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN Matthew 8:11-17 A feast was the Hebrew conception of heaven. The Jews thought they were secure of it, because of their descent from Abraham. Grace is not hereditary; to receive i...
The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power...
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall (a) sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. (a) A metaphor taken of banqueters, for they that...
In consequence of the faith of this Gentile, Jesus Christ takes occasion to declare that many Gentiles would be called to sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven, which i...
CHAPTER 28 JESUS HOMELESS Matthew 8:1-22, & Luke 9:57-62. “And it came to pass, they journeying on the way, a certain one said to Him, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou mayest go, Lord; and Jesus...
HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT Matthew 8:5-13, and Luke 7:1-10. We see here a clear confirmation that the Mount of Beatitudes, on which the sermon was preached, is not Mt. Hattin, west of Tiberias...
We have here another of CHRIST'S. miracles. Capernaum was a city of Galilee, not far from Nazareth. A centurion was an officer among the Romans. This man had a servant sick, of the palsy. Luke, in his...
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...
_HOME CITIZENS DEFEATED_ ‘And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kin...
11._Many will come from the east and west _In the person of the servant, Christ gave to the Gentiles a taste and a kind of first-fruits of his grace. He now shows, that the master is an example of the...
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessi...
AND I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT MANY SHALL COME FROM THE EAST AND WEST,.... On occasion of the faith of the centurion, who was a Gentile, our Lord makes a short digression, concerning the call of the Gentile...
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. Ver. 11. _Many shall come from the east_] They shall...
From this exalted pitch of faith, found in a heathen, Jesus took occasion to declare the merciful purpose which God entertained toward all the Gentiles, namely, that he would accept their faith as rea...
MANY; from among the Gentiles and people less favored with light. Many, with small advantages, look to Christ and live; while others, whose advantages are much greater, reject him and perish....
Now the King comes down among the people from the height from which He had given them wise instruction. For He is not only their teacher: He will experience their sorrows, and show His heart of compas...
5-13 This centurion was a heathen, a Roman soldier. Though he was a soldier, yet he was a godly man. No man's calling or place will be an excuse for unbelief and sin. See how he states his servant's...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 8:12"....
Dialogue of Justin ], and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness.'[289] Dialogue of Justin...
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“And I say to you, that many will come from the east and the west, and will recline (at table) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingly Rule of heaven,” The incident brought home to Jesus tha...
THE CENTURION'S SERVANT (8:5-13). Jesus' first miracle had been on one who was skin-diseased, an outcast from society, one who was unclean and rendered all who came in contact with him as unclean. And...
Matthew 8:11. Luke omits the further application contained in this and the following verse, recording them, however, when repeated on a different occasion (Luke 13:28-29). THAT MANY SHALL COME FROM...
Matthew 8:5-13. THE HEALING OF THE CENTURION'S SERVANT. Compare the fuller account in Luke 7:1-10. This miracle must not be confounded with the healing of the nobleman's son (John 4:47-53) in the same...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
ON OUR LORD'S MIRACLES. The Greek word translated miracle means literally ‘power'; the idea of wondering underlies our word miracle. A miracle is therefore some wonderful display of power; the special...
SIT DOWN (ανακλιθησοντα). Recline at table on couches as Jews and Romans did. Hence Leonardo da Vinci's famous picture of the Last Supper is an anachronism with all seated at table in modern style....
HEAVEN kingdom, (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 3:2). _...
Matthew 8:11 I. There ought to have been nothing which startled the Jews in the first part of this announcement. The name of Abraham ought to have recalled to them the covenant on which their nation s...
Matthew 8:11 Faith the title for justification. Hearing and believing that is, knowing, confessing, and asking give us under the covenant of grace a title; nay, are the sole necessary right and title...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him._ There was a charm about his preaching, not that he modified his doctrine, or that he cut down his precepts; he s...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,_ Great multitudes often count for nothing; it is here or ther...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper_ You see that particular mention is made of this one special case, and, in any co...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a leper, the centurion's servant and Peter's wife's mother. Professed disciples tested. Stilling of the waves. Casting-out demons at Gadara. CHARACTERS: Jesus, leper, centurion...
Matthew 8:2. _Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him._ After having preached his sermon, and discovered his doctrine, says Jerome, an opportunity presented itself of displaying miracles, thereb...
REMEMBER THIS. The east and the west are symbolic of the entire world. Not only those far from the Jews geographically, but spiritually as well _See_ Acts 2:39. SIT DOWN AT THE TABLE. The Jews spoke s...
_Many shall come from the east and west._ THE EXTENT IF GOD’S FAMILY I. That the number of the saved shall be great. “Many.” Might expect the contrary from aspect of society. God has secret servants...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:11 RECLINE AT TABLE. A reference to the future messianic banquet in the kingdom of heaven (Revelation 19:9) that will fulfill God’s p
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:1 The Authoritative Power of the Messiah: Kingdom Power Demonstrated. Jesus has shown himself to be the Messiah through his teaching (chs. Matthew 5:1
A CENTURION ASKS JESUS TO HEAL HIS SERVANT MATTHEW 8:5-13; LUKE 7:2-10 Luke 7:2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die....
CHAPTER 8 Ver. 2. _And, behold, a leper,_ &c. This same miracle is related by S. Mark (Mar 1:40), and by Luke (Luke 5:12). From a comparison of these it would seem to follow that the miracle was not p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 8:5. A CENTURION.—_I.e_. a captain or commander of a century—a company normally composed of a hundred men, the sixtieth part of a legion in the Roman army. This centurion was...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 8:1 MESSIAH'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING. We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework (_vide _I...
Let's turn to Matthew's gospel chapter eight. The fifth chapter of Matthew begins "And seeing the multitude, he went into a mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: And he open...
1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; Acts 10:45;...
Shall sit down [α ν α κ λ ι θ η σ ο ν τ α ι]. Lit., recline. The picture is that of a banquet. Jews as well as Romans reclined at table on couches....
THE MIRACLE-WORKING CHRIST Matthew 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. On the mountain top. The mountain tops in the Bible stand forth in bold review. They represent Heavenly experiences, fellowship with God...
Many from the farthest parts of the earth shall embrace the terms and enjoy the rewards of the Gospel covenant established with Abraham. But the Jews, who have the first title to them, shall be shut o...
(CF. LUKE 7:2-10)— Is there a mistake in the accounts concerning Jesus and the centurion? PROBLEM: Matthew seems to present the centurion as the one who seeks the help of Jesus (Matthew 8:5); but, Luk...
This was the first occasion that Christ took to speak of the calling of the Gentiles, and rejection of the Jews. Observe, here, That the unbelieving Jews are called THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM, becau...