Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking — Conversing in a free, familiar way. Wisdom is justified by her children — That is, my wisdom herein is acknowledged by those who are truly wise.
The Son of man came eating and drinking — Conversing in a free, familiar way. Wisdom is justified by her children — That is, my wisdom herein is acknowledged by those who are truly wise.
MATTHEW 11:19 avpo. tw/n e;rgwn {B} The Committee regarded the reading te,knwn (widely supported by B2 C D K L X D Q P and most minuscules) as having originated in scribal harmonization with the Luka...
Verse Matthew 11:19. _THE SON OF MAN CAME EATING AND DRINKING_] That is, went wheresoever he was invited to eat a morsel of bread, and observed no rigid fasts: how could he, who had no corrupt appetit...
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...
THE SON OF MAN. See App-98. WINEBIBBER. drinking to excess. PUBLICANS AND SINNERS. See notes on Matthew 5:46; Matthew 9:10. BUT. And: i.e. And [for all that] Wisdom was [in each case] vindicated by...
_But wisdom is justified of her children_ Wisdom = "divine wisdom" God regarded AS the All Wise. Justified = "is accounted righteous" "is acquitted of folly." Of her children = "by the divinely wise....
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 change from τέκνων to ἔργων is not certain, it is however supported by אB*, by Jerome’s testimony, and by some Versions. 19. For this adversative use of καί, see note ch. Matthew 1:19. ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ͂Ν....
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...
ΦΆΓΟΣ (G5314) обжора, ΟΊΝΟΠΌΤΗΣ (G3630) тот, кто пьет вино; пьяница. Это обвинение ориентировано на Deuteronomy 21:20, здесь изображается строптивый сын, которого следовало побить камнями (Gundry; RK...
FOR JOHN CAME NEITHER EATING, &C.— Our Lord justifies the application of the proverb in the preceding verse to the Pharisees, by observing, that the divine Wisdom had tried every method proper for con...
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...
11:19 wine-drinking, (a-20) 'Spending his substance in eating and drinking.'...
BUT WISDOM IS (or, 'was') JUSTIFIED OF HER CHILDREN] i.e. the superiority of the religion of the Baptist and of Jesus is proved by the lives of their disciples, which show more signs of genuine piety...
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...
EATING AND DRINKING — i.e., as in the feast in Matthew’s house, or at the marriage-feast of Cana, sharing in the common life of man. The words point almost specifically to the two instances just named...
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'...
_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...
ὁ υἱὸς τ. ἀ.: obviously Jesus here refers to Himself in third person where we might have expected the first. Again the now familiar title, defining itself as we go along by varied use, pointing Jesus...
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...
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. (4) But (f) wisdom is justified of her children. (4) That which th...
Come eating and drinking. Whereas John came living in the wilderness on locusts, wild honey, &c. Yet most part of the Jews neither regarded Christ nor St. John: nay the Pharisees here (ver. 18) say of...
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...
_IN THE WORLD—NOT OF IT_ ‘The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children....
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...
THE SON OF MAN CAME EATING AND DRINKING,.... Meaning himself, who ate and drank as men usually do, lived in the common way of life, was free and sociable, went to feasts, entertainments, and weddings,...
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. Ver. 19. _The Son of man...
_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...
EATING AND DRINKING; living as did other people. THEY SAY, BEHOLD A MAN GLUTTONOUS; they found fault with both, and rejected both, like fickle, capricious children, whom nothing could please. WISDOM...
The direct application:...
THE SON OF MAN CAME EATING AND DRINKING, AND THEY SAY, BEHOLD A MAN GLUTTONOUS, AND A WINE-BIBBER, A FRIEND OF PUBLICANS AND SINNERS. BUT WISDOM IS JUSTIFIED OF HER CHILDREN. The proof for the accusat...
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...
OLBGrk; Ver. 18,19. Luke hath the same words, LUKE 7:33. The sense of the words is this: God hath by his providence used all means to win this people to the gospel. The doctrine of John the Baptist an...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV At what time, then, did He pour out upon the human race the life-giving seed-that is, the Spirit of the remission of sins, through means of whom we are quickened? Wa...
Matthew 11:19 Son G5207 Man G444 came G2064 (G5627) eating G2068 (G5723) and G2532 drinking G4095 ...
“The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of public servants and sinners!' ” Jesus on the other hand was willing to sit at table with...
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...
Matthew 11:19. THE SON OF MAN. Peculiarly appropriate here, where our Lord speaks of Himself, as appearing in His exalted mission, EATING AND DRINKING, like all other men; going to places of festivity...
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...
WISDOM IS JUSTIFIED BY HER WORKS (εδικαιωθη απο των εργων αυτης). A timeless aorist passive (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 836f.). The word "justified" means "set right" Luke (Luke 7:35) has "by all her...
SON OF MAN (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _ SINNERS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Matthew 11:19 I. The idea of the essential badness of pleasure has been very commonly held and advocated by the propounders of ethical and religious systems. The religions of the Hindus and the Buddhi...
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...
THE SON OF MAN CAME. Jesus lived as we do. He was not an "ascetic." His first miracle was at a wedding-feast (John 2:1-11), and he attended Matthew's feast (Matthew 9:10). He drank the light, harmless...
_The Son of man came eating._ CHRIST AND COMMON LIFE I. We have here a strong proof of the humanity of Christ. “The Son of man.” His oneness with men; not exempt from the necessities of our nature;...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:18 NEITHER EATING NOR DRINKING. Some apparently accused John of demonic influence because of his appearance and simple lifestyle. SON OF MAN CAME EATING AND DRINKING. Jesus’...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:24; Ephesians 3:8; John 12:2; John 2:2; Luke 14:1;...