Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 12:34
In another kind likewise, the tree is known by its fruit — Namely, the heart by the conversation.
In another kind likewise, the tree is known by its fruit — Namely, the heart by the conversation.
Verse 34. _O GENERATION OF VIPERS_] These are apparently severe words; but they were extremely proper in reference to that execrable people to whom they were addressed: the whole verse is an inference...
O GENERATION OF VIPERS! - Christ here applies the argument which he had suggested in the previous verse. They were a wicked race; like poisonous reptiles, with a corrupt and evil nature. They could no...
9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP. CHAPTER 12 1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .) 2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
JESUS-' ANSWER TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES, AND THE INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY (Mark 3:20 *, Luke 11:14; Luke 11:29; Luke 12:10;...
CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50) In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments, times and events on which the whole...
"You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil speak good things? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks. The good man brings out good things from his good treasure house; and...
GENERATION. offspring or brood. Compare Matthew 3:7; Matthew 23:33. EVIL. See App-128. OUT OF. Greek. _ek_. ABUNDANCE: or overflow....
_generation of vipers_ Cp. ch. Matthew 3:7. _abundance_ The same Greek word is translated, "that which was left," Mark 8:8. Words are, as it were, the overflow of the heart....
ΓΕΝΝΉΜΑΤΑ ἘΧΙΔΝΩ͂Ν. Cp. ch. Matthew 3:7. Here the argument is turned round against the Pharisees: ‘your words and works are evil, and spring from an evil source.’ The burst of indignation after an ar...
BLASPHEMING AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST...
VER 33. "EITHER MAKE THE TREE GOOD, AND HIS FRUIT GOOD; OR ELSE MAKE THE TREE CORRUPT, AND HIS FRUIT CORRUPT: FOR THE TREE IS KNOWN BY HIS FRUIT. 34. O GENERATION OF VIPERS, HOW CAN YE, BEING EVIL, SP...
_THE WARNING FROM THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:22-37:_ After Jesus healed the demon-possessed man the multitude asked, "could this be the Son of David?" (Matthew 12:23) The Pharisees spoke scornfully of the...
ΓΕΝΝΉΜΑΤΑ порождение, ребенок, потомство, ΈΧΙΔΝΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΈΧΙΔΝΑ (G2191) гадюка, змея. Описательный _gen._: "выводок гадюк" жгучее осуждение лицемерия фарисеев (Hill), ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΎΜΑΤΟΣ _gen. pl._...
O GENERATION OF VIPERS, &C.— Without attending to the context, and our Saviour's general argument, which he is here closely pursuing, interpreters have been strangely perplexed with the phrase _every...
Section 28 JESUS ANSWERS THE CHARGE OF BEING IN LEAGUE WITH SATAN (Parallel: Mark 3:19-30) TEXT: 12:22-37 22. Then was brought unto him one possessed with a demon, blind and dumb: and he healed hi...
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. O GENERATION OF VIPERS (see the note at ). HOW CAN YE, BEING EVIL, SPE...
24 It is usual to associate this chief of the demons with the god of Ekron, called Baalzebub, _ Owner _ or _ Lord of Flies _ (2Ki_1:2). This the Septuagint renders _ Baal muian, Baal fly_. But all the...
PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST 1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
THE PHARISEES ACCUSE JESUS OF BEING IN LEAGUE WITH BEELZEBUB (Mark 3:22 cp. Luke 11:17; Matthew 9:32). The ridiculous charge of the Pharisees is strong evidence of the genuineness of Christ's miracles...
'The same argument applies to words. A man is known by his words. “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Your evil and venomous words, declaring that I have an evil spirit, and work M...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14 Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law: 1. The *disciples...
O GENERATION OF VIPERS. — Better, as in Matthew 3:7, _brood of vipers._ Here the law which had been pressed in its logical bearing in the preceding verse, is brought in to explain the bitter and evil...
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'...
_Kindred Logia_. With the word concerning blasphemy the self-defence of Jesus against Pharisaic calumny reached its culmination and probably (as in Mark's report) its close. The sentences following se...
_Demoniac healed and Pharisaic calumny repelled_ (Mark 3:22-30; Luke 11:14-23 _cf._ Matthew 9:32-34). The healing of a blind and dumb demoniac has its place here not for its own sake, as a miracle, bu...
Γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν, _vide_ Matthew 3:7. John and Jesus agree in thinking the Pharisees a viper-brood. Both conceive them as morally hopeless. The Baptist wonders that they should come to a baptism of r...
SLANDER FROM EVIL HEARTS Matthew 12:24-37 Spite and hatred absolutely blind the eyes and distort the judgment. They reached their climax in this effort of the Pharisees to discredit Christ. They coul...
This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
(7) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (7) Hypocrites at length betray themselves even by their own mouth....
As the Pharisees were ever boasting of, and glorying in their ancestry, Christ here shews, that they have not much reason to boast, since their ancestors were but vipers. (St. John Chrysostom)...
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN (BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST) Mark 3:20-30; Matthew 12:22-37; & Luke 11:14-23. Mark: “And they come into the house; and again a multitude comes together, so that they are not
"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." I would beg the Reader to pause over this verse; and to collect the sense...
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...
34._Offspring of vipers. _The similarity between _the tree _and _the fruit _is here applied by Christ to nothing more than speech, because this afforded an opportunity of detecting the inward and conc...
At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's p...
O GENERATION OF VIPERS,.... Though they boasted of their being the seed of Abraham, yet their immediate ancestors were no other than vipers, deceitful, hurtful, poisonous creatures; and they were exac...
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Ver. 34. _How can ye, being evil, &c._] The stream riseth not higher its s...
_Either make the tree good, and his fruit good_, &c. That is, you must allow they are both good, or both bad: for if the fruit be good, so is the tree; if the fruit be evil, so is the tree also. “Judg...
O GENERATION OF VIPERS, HOW CAN YE, BEING EVIL, SPEAK GOOD THINGS? FOR OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKETH....
Kindred warnings:...
We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
33-37 Men's language discovers what country they are of, likewise what manner of spirit they are of. The heart is the fountain, words are the streams. A troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring, must...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:35"....
Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved? The Lord acknowledges a twofold treasure,-the good: "For the good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good; " and...
Matthew 12:34 Brood G1081 vipers G2191 How G4459 you G1410 (G5736) being G5607 (G5752) evil G4190 speak...
“You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” ‘You, being evil.' Jesus was under no illusions about men. He had said a...
MEN ARE ESPECIALLY KNOWN BY THEIR WORDS (12:31-37). Having put right the Pharisees' wrong conception about Him He now warns them to beware what they say. For what they say will reveal the truth about...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. These occurrences seem to have followed each other in immediate succession. Luke places the last one (Matthew 12:46-50) after the parable of the sower, but Mark gives the same order...
Matthew 12:34. YE BROOD OF VIPERS. Comp. chap. Matthew 3:7. The meek and lowly Saviour utters these words. The Pharisees were referred to, as the corrupt tree (Matthew 12:33), a poisonous plant; now a...
YE OFFSPRING OF VIPERS (γεννηματα εχιδνων). These same terrible words the Baptist had used to the Pharisees and Sadducees who came to his baptism (Matthew 3:7). But these Pharisees had deliberately...
GENERATION Progeny. (Matthew 3:7); (Matthew 23:33)....
CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of sel...
Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
HOW CAN YOU SAY GOOD THINGS? They were poisonous and evil, like snakes [these enemies of his]. They could not praise God or say good things, because of their condition. Read Jesus' prophecy on Jerusal...
_A good man out of the good treasure of the heart, _ THE TREASURES OF A GOOD AND EVIL HEART I. Describe the good treasure of the heart. 1. A good heart contains good affections. 2. Good desires....
RELIGIOUS LEADERS ACCUSE JESUS OF BEING UNDER SATAN'S POWER MATTHEW 12:24-37; MARK 3:20-30; LUKE 11:15-23; MATTHEW 12:24 But w
1-50 CHAPTER XII. _At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:23. IS NOT THIS THE SON OF DAVID?—See “The Parallel New Testament” (1882). The “not” is omitted in both columns. It “was wisely omitted by King James’ translators. It is no...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 12:1 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1); (2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew? Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
1 John 3:10; 1 Samuel 24:13; Isaiah 32:6; Isaiah 59:14; Isaiah 59:4;...
Note here, 1. The fervency and zeal of our Saviour's spirit in the compellation given to the Pharisees: he calls them. GENERATION OF VIPERS: intimating that they were. venomous and dangerous sort of m...