Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 11:16
This generation — That is, the men of this age. They are like those froward children of whom their fellows complain, that they will be pleased no way.
This generation — That is, the men of this age. They are like those froward children of whom their fellows complain, that they will be pleased no way.
Verse Matthew 11:16. _BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN THIS GENERATION?_] That is, the Jewish people - την γενεαν ταυτην, _this race_: and so the word γενεα is often to be understood in the evangelists....
BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN ... - Christ proceeds to reprove the inconsistency and fickleness of that age of people. He says they were like children - nothing pleased them. He refers here to the “play...
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...
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 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...
"To what will I compare this generation? It is like children in the market-place, calling to their companions, and saying, 'We piped to you and you did not dance; we wailed and you did not mourn.' For...
THIS GENERATION?. significant expression, occurring sixteen times (Matthew 11:16; Matthew 12:41; Matthew 12:42; Matthew 23:36;...
_But whereunto shall I liken this generation?_ The children who complain of their companions are the Jews who are satisfied neither with Jesus nor with John. This generation is out of sympathy with th...
CONCERNING JOHN THE BAPTIST His message to Jesus 2–6. His position as a Prophet 7–14. His relation to Jesus and to his contemporaries 15–19. St Luke 7:18-35...
The _textus receptus_ here has καὶ προσφωνοῦσι τοῖς ἑταὶροις αὐτῶν καὶ λέγουσιν. The authority for the correction is decisive. 16. ὉΜΟΊΑ ἘΣΤῚΝ ΠΑΙΔΊΟΙΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. If the grammatical form of the comparison...
Ver 16. "But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, 17. And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; w...
_A MOST UNUSUAL MAN MATTHEW 11:7-19:_ John was one of God's greatest servants. Jesus used this occasion to say some things concerning his character and ministry. He gave His approval to the good work...
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BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN, &C.— For the better understanding of our Saviour in this place, see Luke 7:29. To shew the Pharisees more plainly the perverseness of their disposition, our Saviour told t...
SECTION 24 JESUS RECEIVES A QUESTION FROM JOHN AND PREACHES A SERMON ON JOHN (Parallel: Luke 7:18-35) TEXT: 11:2-19 2. Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his di...
_AND SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME, OR DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
7 Compare Luk_7:24-30. 7 The Lord might well have spoken disparagingly of John at this juncture. Instead, He gives him a eulogy which places him on the highest pinnacle of human fame. He gives him a...
THE PRAISE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Luke 7:24). Lest the purpose of the question of John, 'Art thou he that should come?' should be misunderstood, Jesus hastens to assure the people that JOHN IS NO REED S...
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...
IT IS LIKE UNTO CHILDREN SITTING IN THE MARKETS. — The comparison is drawn from one of the common amusements of the children of an Eastern city. They form themselves into companies, and get up a drama...
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'...
τίνι ὁμοιώσω : the parable is introduced by a question, as if the thought had just struck Him. τὴν γενεὰν ταύτην. The occasion on which the words following were spoken would make it clear who were ref...
_Judgment of Jesus on His religious contemporaries_ (Luke 7:31-35). It is advisable not to assume as a matter of course that these words were spoken at the same time as those going before. The discour...
THE LAST OF THE PROPHETS Matthew 11:11 The least in a higher dispensation has great advantages over the greatest in a lower one. A child on a hill can see farther than a giant in the valley. Many hav...
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...
(3) But whereunto shall I liken this generation? (e) It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, (3) There are none who are more stout and stubborn enemies of the...
_Is like to children, &c. This similitude signifies that there was nothing necessary for their salvation, which God had not abundantly provided for; but they had pertinaciously continued in their incr...
SANCTIFICATION DOUBLY METAPHORIZED “But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like unto little children, sitting in the forums, and calling to their comrades, and saying, We have piped unto yo...
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...
_THE PORTRAIT OF AN AGE_ ‘Whereunto shall I liken this generation?… Wisdom is justified of her children?’ Matthew 11:16 The portrait of an age—that and nothing less is what is essayed in these sent...
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...
BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN THIS GENERATION? The men of that age, the stubborn and perverse Jews; who were pleased with nothing, with no man's ministry, neither with John's, nor with Christ's, but fou...
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, Ver. 16. _But whereunto shall I liken this generation?_] So great was the...
_Whereunto shall I liken this generation_ That is, the men of this age? They are like those froward children, of whom their fellows complain that they will be pleased no way. _Saying, We have piped un...
CHILDREN SITTING IN THE MARKETS; and imitating in their plays the transactions of life....
BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN THIS GENERATION? IT IS LIKE UNTO CHILDREN SITTING IN THE MARKETS AND CALLING UNTO THEIR FELLOWS,...
An earnest censure for the Jews:...
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...
16-24 Christ reflects on the scribes and Pharisees, who had a proud conceit of themselves. He likens their behaviour to children's play, who being out of temper without reason, quarrel with all the a...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I And, again, He likens the kingdom of heaven to children sitting in the market-places and saying, "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have m...
Matthew 11:16 But G1161 what G5101 liken G3666 (G5692) this G5026 generation G1074 is G2076 (G5748) like...
JESUS CHARGES THE PEOPLE OF HIS GENERATION WITH NOT TAKING JOHN'S OR HIS MESSAGE SERIOUSLY, BUT BEHAVING LIKE CHILDREN AT PLAY (11:16-19). The sudden change of subject here is very vivid. He has been...
“But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their fellows and say, We piped to you, and you did not dance, We wailed, and you did not mou...
Matthew 11:16. THIS GENERATION, _i.e.,_ the people then living in Judea. CHILDREN, etc. These children are represented as idling in public places, SITTING IN THE MARKET-PLACES....
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The sending out of the Twelve probably called into open manifestation the opposition of the Pharisees: hence Matthew groups the events indicating this hostility, without regard to c...
Matthew 11:16 The Baptist and Christ. I. When John appeared to Israel, and made his voice heard from the wilderness, the stern reality of such a life struck all imaginations; the hope he held out of...
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...
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...
NOW, TO WHAT CAN I COMPARE? See _Matt. 7:31-35;_ Matthew 23:29-36. THEY ARE LIKE CHILDREN. Ancient towns had an open market place, where children would often come and play....
_But whereunto shall I liken this generation?_ It is like unto children sitting in the markets. EXCUSES OF SINNERS The Great Teacher on the watch that He might spiritualize what passed before Him;...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:16 THIS GENERATION. The crowds and the religious leaders who have rejected John’s and Jesus’ ministries. ⇐...
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
JESUS EASES JOHN'S DOUBT MATTHEW 11:2-19; LUKE 7:19-35; MATTHEW 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,...
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_ Matthew 11:19. WISDOM.—God regarded as the All-Wise. JUSTIFIED.—Acquitted of folly. CHILDREN.—The Divinely wise. The spiritual recognise the wisdom of God both in the austerity of Jo...
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...
Lamentations 2:13; Luke 13:18; Luke 7:31; Mark 4:30; Matthew 12:34;...
Children [π α ι δ ι ο ι ς]. Diminutive, little children. The Rev. Donald Fraser gives the picture simply and vividly : "He pictured a group of little children playing at make - believe marriages and f...
Our Saviour in these words describes the perverse humour of the Pharisees, whom nothing could allure to the embracing of the gospel, neither John's ministry nor Christ's. This our Saviour sets forth...