He wrought not many mighty works, because of their unbelief — And the reason why many mighty works are not wrought now, is not, that the faith is not every where planted; but, that unbelief every where prevails.
Verse Matthew 13:58. _AND HE DID NOT MANY MIGHTY WORKS THERE BECAUSE OF_ _THEIR UNBELIEF_] δυναμεις, _miracles_. So the word is used, Matthew 7:22; Matthew 11:20;...
DID NOT MANY MIGHTY WORKS - Miracles. This implies that he performed some miracles. Mark tells us what they were: “He laid his hands upon a few sick folk and healed them,” Mark 6:5. BECAUSE OF THEIR U...
II. THE REJECTED KINGDOM AND THE REJECTED KING. CHAPTER S 13-28. 1. The King at the Seaside. The Mysteries of the Kingdom. CHAPTER 13 1. The King at the Seaside. (Matthew 13:1 .) 2. The Parable of...
JESUS REJECTED AT NAZARETH (Mark 6:1 *, _cf._ Luke 4:16). Mt. has already used Mark 4:35 and Matthew 5. Perhaps the original reading in Matthew 13:55 is ne
When Jesus had concluded these parables, he left there. He went into his native place and he taught them in their synagogue. His teaching was such that they were astonished and said, "Where did this m...
The Prophet in his own Country. Mark 6:1-6 where the incident is placed between the cure of Jairus" daughter and the mission of the Twelve, Luke 4:16-30, where our Lord's discourse in the synagogue i...
THE PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY Mark 6:1-6; Luke 4:16-30 In Mark the incident is placed between the cure of Jairus’ daughter and the mission of the Twelve; in Luke our Lord’s discourse in the synagogu...
Ver 53. And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. 54. And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were...
_THE PARABLE OF THE DRAGNET MATTHEW 13:47-58:_ The dragnet was a common way of fishing in Jesus' day and is still used today. The dragnet took in all kinds of fish. Just so, the gospel net brings all...
ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 13:23. ΆΠΙΣΤΊΑ (G570) неверие....
AND HE DID NOT, &C.— We are not to understand these words as if the power of Christ was here disarmed: but only that they brought but _few sick people_ to him for a cure, Mark 6:5. He did not judge it...
Section 32 JESUS IS REFUSED BY HIS OWN AT NAZARETH. TEXT: 13:54-58 (Parallel: Mark 6:1-6) 54 And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, a...
And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. AND HE DID NOT MANY MIGHTY WORKS THERE, BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF - "except that He laid His hands on a few sick folk, and healed the...
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
DID NOT MANY] St. Mark has 'could not do.'...
A DAY OF PARABLES 1-3a. Teaching by parables begun (Mark 4:1; Luke 8:4). This chapter introduces a new type of teaching, that by parables. St. Matthew gives us a group of seven, the first four of whic...
SECOND VISIT TO NAZARETH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD (Mark 6:1). The first is described Luke 4:16, where He received similar treatment and used the same proverb....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 STORIES ABOUT WHERE GOD RULES 13:1-52 Matthew wrote down a lot of the things that Jesus taught. This chapter is the third section...
HE DID NOT MANY MIGHTY WORKS THERE. — In St. Mark the language is stronger, “He _could_ do no mighty works there.” The wonder-working power was not absolute and unconditioned, but depended on the fait...
CHAPTER 11 The Parables of the Kingdom - Matthew 13:1 "THE same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side." We can well imagine that, after such a series of discouragements and mortifi...
_Visit to Nazareth_ (Mark 6:1-6, _cf._ Luke 4:16-30). In Mk. this is the next section after the parables, deducting what had previously been reported in Mt. (chaps. 8 and 9), a pretty sure sign that o...
ere also editorial discretion is at work. Mark states that Jesus was not able to work miracles in Nazareth, and that He marvelled at their unbelief. Matthew changes this into a statement that He did f...
HOW UNBELIEF HINDERS Matthew 13:51-58 God's truth is always new and always old. It is as fresh as the morning breeze for each coming generation. But however stated, the fundamental facts are invaria...
This chapter contains the seven parables of the Kingdom. The reason for the parabolic teaching of Christ is set forth here. This first parable was spoken to the multitudes (verses Mat 13:2-3). Its exp...
CHAPTER 27 THE LEAVEN Matthew 13:33. _“He spake another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, until all were leav...
CHAPTER 30 JESUS AGAIN REJECTED AT NAZARETH Matthew 13:54-58, & Mark 6:1-6. “He went out from thence, and came into His own country [i.e., He went from Capernaum to Nazareth]; and His disciples follo...
REFLECTIONS Reader! let you and I pause over this sweet Chapter, and mark the condescending love of Jesus, in thus adopting his discourse, under the imagery of parables, surely it serves to teach us t...
"And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. (54) And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astoni...
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 SIN OF UNBELIEF_ ‘He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.’ Matthew 13:58 We see in these words the secret of the ruin of multitudes of souls! I. THOSE WHO WILL NOT BELIE...
58._And he did not perform many miracles in that place. Mark _states it more emphatically, that _he could not perform any miracle. _But they are perfectly agreed as to the substance of what is said, t...
The Lord was no longer seeking fruit in His vine. It had been requisite according to God's relations with Israel that He should seek this fruit; but His true service, He well knew, was to bring that w...
AND HE DID NOT MANY MIGHTY WORKS THERE,.... Some he did, though not many; partly that they might be left inexcusable, and partly that it might not be said, he did not wish well, to his own country: wh...
And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Ver. 58. _He did not many mighty works_] Mark saith he could not do much for them. Christ, that could do all things by his absolute p...
_And he did not_, (Mark says, _he could not do,_) _many mighty works, because of their unbelief_ On which words it has been justly observed, that they are not to be understood so strictly as if the po...
UNBELIEF; as they rejected him, and disbelieved his Messiahship, notwithstanding all his miracles, he left them and departed to another place....
This chapter begins a new division of the book. Israel is looked at as set aside because of unbelief: the Lord went out of the house (typically Israel's house), and set by the seaside. The sea is typi...
53-58 Christ repeats his offer to those who have repulsed them. They upbraid him, Is not this the carpenter's son? Yes, it is true he was reputed to be so; and no disgrace to be the son of an honest...
Mark saith, MARK 6:4, _But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. And he could there do no mighty work, save that h...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X "[127] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X And perhaps, as in the case of material things there exists in some things a natural attraction towards some other thing...
Matthew 13:58 Now G2532 did G4160 (G5656) not G3756 many G4183 works G1411 there G1563 because G1223 their...
‘And he did not perform many mighty works there because of their unbelief.' Jesus was able to accomplish very little in His own home area, simply because, in their unbelief, they did not come to Him o...
CHRONOLOGY, and relation to the account in LUKE 4:14-30. Views: (1.) Two distinct visits. That in Luke at the beginning of the Galilean ministry, and occasioning the removal to Capernaum (Matthew 4:17...
Matthew 13:58. AND HE DID NOT THERE MANY MIGHTY WORKS BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF. This unbelief was inconsistent and criminal, for they acknowledged His wisdom and power (Matthew 13:54). Jesus does not...
MIGHTY WORKS (δυναμεις). Powers. The "disbelief" (απιστιαν) of the townspeople blocked the will and the power of Jesus to work cures....
Matthew 13:58 The heathen conception of God is that of an irresistible force, directed by an irresponsible will. And if we examine our own feelings regarding God and the spirit which pervades our pray...
Matthew 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:_ Jesus never sowed any other kind of seed. The truth wh...
CONTENTS: Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. The sower, tares and wheat, grain of mustard seed, leaven, hid treasure, pearl, drag net. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The pr...
Matthew 13:2. _He went into a ship._ A small vessel or boat, probably belonging to one of the disciples, several of whom were fishermen. Matthew 13:3. _He spake many things to them in parables._ On th...
HE DID NOT. Miracles would not impress these people, because they had already decided not to believe. The SYNAGOGUE was like the CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION. Wherever ten Jews lived in the same area, it wa...
_Because of their unbelief._ UNBELIEF An empty vessel capable of holding water, if tightly corked, none can enter it, though water is poured upon it in great abundance; nay, it may be thrown into the...
THE PEOPLE OF NAZARETH REFUSE TO BELIEVE MATTHEW 13:53-58; MARK 6:1-6; MATTHEW 13:53 And it came to pass, [_that_] when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 13:54. HIS OWN COUNTRY.—The district of Nazareth. Matthew 13:55. THE CARPENTER’S SON (see Mark 6:3).—Joseph was an _artificer_, for the word “carpenter” must not be interpret...
EXPOSITION A few remarks by way of introduction to the characteristic portion of this chapter (Matthew 13:1). (1) We have here a collection of the Lord's parables, all spoken, as it would appear, at...
Now as we enter into the thirteenth chapter, we come into the area of the parables that deal with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. And in these we have more or less a key to all parables. And y...
Hebrews 3:12; Hebrews 4:6; Luke 4:25; Mark 6:5; Mark 6:6;...
This sin not only locks up the heart of. sinner, but also binds up the hands of. Saviour. Unbelief obstructed Christ's miraculous works when on earth, and it obstructs his gracious works now in heaven...