Matthew 11:1
MATTHEW 11:1 (contrast Mark 6:12; Luke 9:6) is, like Matthew 7:28, a formula rounding off the collection of sayings.... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 11:1 (contrast Mark 6:12; Luke 9:6) is, like Matthew 7:28, a formula rounding off the collection of sayings.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOHN THE BAPTIST (Luke 7:18). In place of Mk.'s narrative of John, deferred to ch. 14, Mt. gives material from Q. MATTHEW 11:2. JOHN'S PERPLEXITY. It is a question whether doubt was supervening upon the Baptist's first faith, or whether Matthew 3:14 f. is unhistorical, and John had all along been u... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE TO UNBELIEVING CITIES (Luke 10:13; in the address to the Seventy). We should rather have expected to find this passage in Matthew 10. Some scholars regard the denunciation as the product of a later generation rather than an utterance of Jesus. The Galilean cities had been comparatively receptive... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS AND HIS MISSION. Matthew 11:25 treats of the relation between the Father and the Son (Luke 10:21 f.), Matthew 11:28 of the yoke of Jesus (Mt. only). No stress can be laid on at that time, though these things might mean the significance of the wonders which Chorazin and the other towns had not... [ Continue Reading ]