Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 16:8
Why reason ye — Why are you troubled about this? Am I not able, if need so require, to supply you by a word?
Why reason ye — Why are you troubled about this? Am I not able, if need so require, to supply you by a word?
Verse Matthew 16:8. _WHEN JESUS PERCEIVED, HE SAID_] αυτοις, _unto them_, is wanting in BDKLMS, and twenty others; one of the Syriac, the Armenian, Ethiopic, Vulgate, and most of the Itala; also in Or...
The account in these verses is also recorded in Mark 8:13. Matthew 16:5 AND WHEN HIS DISCIPLES WERE COME TO THE OTHER SIDE - That is, to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. Mark says that he enter...
4. THE GREAT ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE REJECTED KING CONCERNING HIMSELF. CHAPTER 16 1. Pharisees and Sadducees Asking a Sign. (Matthew 16:1 .) 2. Instructions Concerning the Leaven. (Matthew 16:5 .) 3. P...
THE BLINDNESS OF THE DISCIPLES REBUKED (Mark 8:14 *, Luke 11:53 f., Luke 12:1). Note how Mt avoids the idea that Jesus had forgotten the bread. The Sadducees are mentioned again in 6. The detached say...
BLIND TO THE SIGNS (Matthew 16:1-4)...
When the disciples came to the other side, they had forgotten to take loaves with them. Jesus said to them, "See that you beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." They argued amongst them...
O YE OF LITTLE FAITH. See note on Matthew 6:30. and Compare Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31, and Luke 12:28....
The Leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees Mark 8:14-21, where the rebuke of Christ is given more at length in stirring language; and Luke 12:1, where the context is different....
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND OF THE SADDUCEES Mark 8:14-21, where the rebuke of Christ is given more at length in stirring language; and Luke 12:1, where the context and occasion are different. ἐπ...
ὈΛΙΓΌΠΙΣΤΟΙ. Their πίστις had failed in two respects: they had shown (1) want of _spiritual insight_ by taking ζύμη in a literal sense. (2) Want of _loving trust_ in thinking that Jesus intended a reb...
Ver 5. And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. 6. Then Jesus said unto them, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." 7...
_THE DANGER OF FALSE DOCTRINE MATTHEW 16:1-12:_ The Pharisees and Sadducees were seeking a sign from heaven. Hatred for Jesus had brought together this strange coalition. There were the Pharisees that...
ΓΝΟΎΣ _aor. act. part. masc. пот. sing. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, признавать. Temp, или причинное _part._ ОΛΙΓΌΠΙΣΤΌΣ (G3640) маловер (nom.pl. малая вера, доверие, уверенность в могуществе Христа и Е...
Section 40 JESUS WARNS DISCIPLES AGAINST INFLUENCE OF POPULAR LEADERS AND PARTIES (Parallel: Mark 8:13-26) TEXT: 16:5-12 5 And the disciples came to the other side and forgot to take bread. 6 And Je...
_THE PHARISEES ALSO WITH THE SADDUCEES CAME, AND TEMPTING DESIRED HIM THAT HE WOULD SHEW THEM A SIGN FROM HEAVEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
6 Leaven stands for corrupt doctrine (12). Our Lord was concerned that the disciples should not be tainted by digesting the teaching of His enemies. But all that they were concerned about was the poss...
ST. PETER'S GREAT CONFESSION 1-4. A sign from heaven demanded (Mark 8:11 cp. Luke 11:16 : see on Matthew 12:38)....
THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES (Mark 8:14). But the narratives are independent. This incident could only be derived from an eyewitness and an apostle. The discreditable light in which it pl...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ASK FOR A *MIRACLE 16:1-4 V1 Some *Pharisees and some *Sadducees came to Jesus. They wanted to test him. So th...
O YE OF LITTLE FAITH. — Our Lord reproves not the want of discernment which made them slow to receive the meaning of the similitude, but their want of faith. The discernment depended (in part, at leas...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
ὀλιγόπιστοι : always thinking about _bread, bread_, instead of the kingdom and its fortunes, with which alone the Master was occupied....
_Demand for a sign_ (Mark 8:11-21)....
The one important thing in this section is the reflection of Jesus on what had just taken place. The historical setting is not clear. Jesus left the sign seekers after giving them their answer. The di...
BEWARE OF EVIL INFLUENCES Matthew 16:1-12 The signs of the times in our own day are much as they were in that. Still men are lovers of pleasure rather than of God. Still they who will live a godly li...
What a very wonderful fact in the life and ministry of Jesus is His power of suppressing the marvelous powers He possessed. He never used them save in divine wisdom and love. How easily He could have...
[Which] when Jesus (d) perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? (d) Not by others, but by virtue of his divinity....
_Why do you think? That we might know what effect this discourse of our Saviour had upon his disciples, the evangelist immediately subjoins, then they understood, &c. This exposition of Christ freed t...
PHARISAIC LEAVEN Matthew 16:4-12; Mark 8:13-21. _“Leaving them, embarking again in a ship, He departed to the other side.”_ This voyage was from Magdala, on the northwest coast, over to the region of...
"And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. (6) Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (7) And...
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...
8._Why do you think within yourselves, etc.? _The disciples again show how little they had profited by the instructions of their Master, and by his wonderful works. What he had said about being on the...
Chapter 16 goes farther than the revelation of the simple grace of God. Jesus reveals what was about to be formed in the counsels of that grace, where He was owned, shewing the rejection of the proud...
WHICH WHEN JESUS PERCEIVED,.... Without hearing any of their debates, but by his omniscience; for he knew the doubts and unbelief, and anxious solicitude of their minds, as well as their private reaso...
_Which_ when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Ver. 8. _O ye of little faith_] _Fides famem non formidat._ It...
_When his disciples were come to the other side_ Namely, of the sea of Tiberias, see Mark 8:13; _they had forgotten to take bread_ They had tarried so long in Dalmanutha, or Magdala, that they had con...
No displays of the power and love of Christ in times past, will of themselves lead his people rightly to trust in him for the future. In order to this, they must have his present teaching; and for thi...
WHICH WHEN JESUS PERCEIVED, HE SAID UNTO THEM, O YE OF LITTLE FAITH, WHY REASON YE AMONG YOURSELVES BECAUSE YE HAVE BROUGHT NO BREAD?...
The reproof and explanation:...
The enmity against the true Messiah increases now to the point of Pharisee's and Sadducee's (usually hostile to each other) conspiring together to tempt Him, in an effort to trap Him in some way. Both...
5-12 Christ speaks of spiritual things under a similitude, and the disciples misunderstand him of carnal things. He took it ill that they should think him as thoughtful about bread as they were; that...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 16:12"....
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII And moreover this also is to be observed, in view of those who think that the divinity of the Saviour is not at all demonstrable from the Gospel of Matthew, that...
Matthew 16:8 But G1161 Jesus G2424 aware G1097 (G5631) said G2036 (G5627) them G846 faith G3640 why...
‘And Jesus perceiving it said, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves, because you have no bread?” Jesus is concerned both at their anxiety about shortage of bread and at their ina...
THE FAILURE OF THE DISCIPLES TO TAKE KOSHER BREAD WITH THEM WHEN GOING TO GENTILE TERRITORY RAISES THE QUESTION OF ‘THE LEAVEN OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES' (16:5-12). Arriving back ‘on the other side...
Matthew 16:8. AND JESUS KNOWING IT SAID. This avoids the incorrect notion, that He took some time to discover it O YE OF LITTLE FAITH. Words applied to them before (chap. Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31)...
In consequence of the opposition of Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem (chap. Matthew 15:1; Matthew 15:21), our Lord had withdrawn to heathen and unfrequented regions. On His return, He lands at a r...
Jesus asks four pungent questions about the intellectual dulness, refers to the feeding of the five thousand and uses the word κοφινους (Matthew 14:20) for it and σφυριδας for the four thousand (Matth...
CONTENTS: Jesus' rebuke of blind Pharisees. The symbol of leaven interpreted. Peter's confession of the deity of Jesus. Jesus foretells His death and resurrection. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter, Sata...
Matthew 16:1. _The pharisees also with the sadducees came,_ soliciting _a sign from heaven: Matthew 12:38_. This was the second time, and they received the appellation of hypocrites, as professing the...
THEY STARTED DISCUSSING AMONG THEMSELVES. The disciples felt guilty about their carelessness, and this was all they could think about so they really did not listen to what Jesus was saying. They thoug...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 16:6 In contrast to Matthew 13:33, here LEAVEN is a negative metaphor. It indicates how corruption can ruin what is good....
JESUS WARNS AGAINST WRONG TEACHING MATTHEW 16:5-12; MARK 8:14-21; MATTHEW 16:5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread....
1-28 CHAPTER 16 _And there came unto Him Pharisees_, &c. They had previously asked for a sign (Matthew 12:38). But here again they asked for one because of the miracle of the multiplication of the lo...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 16:9. BASKETS.—See notes on Matthew 14:20, Matthew 15:37. Matthew 16:12. DOCTRINE.—Tea
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 16:1 _The Pharisees and Sadducees desire a sign. _(Mark 8:11.) MATTHEW 16:1 THE PHARISEES ALSO WITH the Saddueees;
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came [And now they are seeking to trap Him], and they desire that he would show them a sign from heaven. And he answered and said unto them: When it is evening, y...
Hebrews 4:13; John 16:30; John 2:24; John 2:25; Mark 16:14;...