Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible
Matthew 11:1
1 Our Divine Redeemer never was weary of his labour of love; and we should not be weary of well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
1 Our Divine Redeemer never was weary of his labour of love; and we should not be weary of well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
CHAPTER XI. _Christ, having finished his instructions to his disciples,_ _departs to preach in different cities_, 1. _John sends two of his disciples to him to inquire whether he_ _were the Christ...
AND IT CAME TO PASS ... - The directions to the apostles were given in the vicinity of Capernaum. The Saviour went from thence to preach in their cities; that is, in the cities in the vicinity of Cape...
8. THE FORERUNNER IN PRISON. THE KINGDOM PREACHING REJECTED. CHAPTER 11 1. John Imprisoned Sends his Disciples. (Matthew 11:1 .) 2. The King's Testimony Concerning John. (Matthew 11:7 .) 3. The King...
MATTHEW 11:1 (contrast Mark 6:12; Luke 9:6) is, like Matthew 7:28, a formula rounding off the collection of sayings....
THE SIX ACCENTS IN THE VOICE OF JESUS (Matthew 11:1-30) Matthew 11:1-30 is a chapter in which Jesus is speaking all the time; and, as he speaks to different people and about different things, we hear...
And when Jesus had completed his instructions to the twelve disciples, he left there to go on teaching and to go on making his proclamation in their towns. When John had heard in prison about the thin...
JESUS. App-98. PREACH. proclaim. App-121. Continuing His mission (Matthew 4:17)....
JESUS PREACHES THE GOSPEL, PROBABLY UNACCOMPANIED BY THE TWELVE 1. ΚΑῚ ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ. A translation of a Hebrew transitional formula; the verb which follows (1) is sometimes connected with καί, as ch. Matth...
VER 1. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END OF COMMANDING HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES, HE DEPARTED THENCE TO TEACH AND TO PREACH IN THEIR CITIES. Rabanus: The Lord having sent out His disciples t...
_A MAN CALLED JOHN MATTHEW 11:1-6:_ John the Baptist was a great servant of God. But, even great servants can doubt and need reassurance. He asked, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind._ mid _(dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑ Ι (G174) становиться, случаться; _см._ Matthew 7:28. ΈΤΈΛΕΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΤΕΛΈΩ (G432) заканчивать, завершать. ΔΙΑΤΆΣΣΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΙΑΤ...
HAD MADE AN END OF COMMANDING— _Had finished his instructions to,_ &c. Heylin. _In their cities_—means "in the other cities of the Jews;" for the pronoun is often put without having a noun going befor...
SECTION 23 JESUS COMMISSIONS TWELVE APOSTLES TO EVANGELIZE GALILEE VII. JESUS ALSO GOES TO EVANGELIZE GALILEE TEXT: 11:1 1. And it came to pass when Jesus had finished commanding his twelve discipl...
And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END OF COM...
23 The mood of the verb is most important here. The Lord is not telling what would but what may occur. His apostles were frail mortals, easily discouraged, so He does no more than hint at a possible f...
THE DISCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST 1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started on their mission about five weeks before the second Passover of the ministry (28 a.d.) and were away...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JOHN THE *BAPTIST ASKED A QUESTION 11:1-6 V1 Jesus finished giving instructions to his 12 *disciples. Then he went on from there...
XI. (1) HE DEPARTED THENCE — i.e., from the place from which He had sent forth the Twelve. Where this was St. Matthew does not tell us, but Matthew 9:36 makes it probable that it was not in Capernaum...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
ὅτε ἐτέλεσεν διατάσσων. The participle here with a verb signifying to cease as often with verbs signifying to begin, continue, persevere, etc., _vide_ Goodwin, § 879. ἐκεῖθεν, from that place, the pla...
HOW DOUBTS MAY BE SOLVED Matthew 11:1 The Baptist was languishing in a gloomy dungeon in the castle of Machaerus, on the farther shores of the Dead Sea-like a wild creature of the desert, suddenly en...
This picture of John is very full of pathos-from the high triumph of inspired preaching to the solitude and loneliness of a prison. John made as direct application to Jesus as his circumstances permit...
And (1) it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of (a) commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in (b) their cities. (1) Christ shows by his works that he is the...
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...
Matthew 11:1._And it happened that when Jesus had made an end _In this passage Matthew means nothing more than that Christ did not desist from the exercise of his office, while the Apostles were labor...
From that hour we find the definitive judgment of the nation, not indeed as yet openly declared (that is in chapter 12), nor by the cessation of Christ's ministry, which wrought, notwithstanding the o...
AND IT CAME TO PASS,.... In the course of things, and as before determined and resolved on, that WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END OF COMMANDING HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES; when he had given them a commission to...
And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. Ver. 1. _He departed thence to teach, &c._] Never out of...
_When Jesus had made an end of commanding_, that is, of giving instruction to _his twelve disciples_, and thereby of preparing them for the service they were now to undertake, _he departed to teach an...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END OF COMMANDING' HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES, HE DEPARTED THENCE TO TEACH AND TO PREACH IN THEIR CITIES. The Lord had commissioned the twelve apostles, giving th...
Throughout Israel now the Lord carries on an intensive teaching and preaching in their cities. John the Baptist hears of this in the prison, but he is deeply puzzled, for he sends two of his disciples...
OLBGrk; MATTHEW CHAPTER 11 MATTHEW 11:2 John sendeth his disciples to Christ. MATTHEW 11:7 Christ's testimony concerning John. MATTHEW 11:16 The perverse judgments of the people concerning both John a...
Matthew 11:1 Now G2532 pass G1096 (G5633) when G3753 Jesus G2424 finished G5055 (G5656) commanding G1299 ...
‘And it came about that when Jesus had finished commanding his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.” Then once Jesus had given His instructions to His twelve...
Matthew 11:1. This verse probably belongs to this section, since it is entirely disconnected from Matthew 11:2. HE DEPARTED THENCE. He continued His own labors as before, the Apostles being merely he...
Peculiar to Matthew, though some of the sayings occur in the other Gospels. As such trials and emergencies did not occur on this journey, some suppose this part of the discourse was uttered at a later...
HE DEPARTED THENCE TO TEACH AND PREACH (μετεβη εκειθεν του διδασκειν κα κηρυσσειν). In five instances (Matthew 7:28; Matthew 11:1; Matthew 13:53;...
Matthew 11:1 Jesus and His Doubters. I. The doubt. It is not at all clear who doubted, whether John or his disciples, or indeed whether they all did. The stoutest faith has often failed before now; o...
Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the...
Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities._ Whatever he commanded, he himself did. H...
Matthew 11:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the work...
CONTENTS: Answer to questions sent Jesus by John the Baptist. Judgment predicted as result of rejection of Christ. Rest for individuals who put their trust in Him. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist...
Matthew 11:3. _Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another._ Brevity here is connected with obscurity. John could not doubt, after seeing the glory, and hearing the voice from heaven. The...
Art Thou He that should come? JOHN’S INQUIRY I. The inquiry made by the baptist. It was suggested by the incredulous state of his disciples. (1) Because if Jesus was Messiah He had not exerted His...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:1 Opposition to the Messiah Increases. There has been occasional resistance to Jesus’ ministry (e.g., Matthew 9:3). It now begins to increase sig
CHAPTER 11 _And it came to pass_, &c. _He passed from thence_ : That means, He separated Himself from His Apostles, whom He sent to preach the Gospel by themselves, both that they might prepare the wa...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ The general heading of the chapter may be given as: JESUS JUDGING HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND HIMSELF (_A. B. Bruce, D.D_.). Hitherto almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 11:1 Matthew only. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END. The same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28; Matthew 13:53;...
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of these commandments, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities (Matthew 11:1). So He sent them out in front of them, and then He...
1 Thessalonians 4:2; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:6;...
Commanding [δ ι α τ α σ σ ω ν]. The preposition dia has a distributive force : giving to each his appropriate charge. Their cities [α υ τ ω ν]. The towns of those to whom he came - the Galilaeans. Co...
In their cities — The other cities of Israel....
Our blessed Saviour having sent forth his twelve apostles in the foregoing chapter, to plant and progagate the gospel, we find him, in this chapter, following them himself in that great and necessary...