Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said — When God calls, leave the business of the world to them who are dead to God.
But Jesus said — When God calls, leave the business of the world to them who are dead to God.
Verse Matthew 8:22. _LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD._] It was usual for the Jews to consider a man as _dead_ who had departed from the precepts of the law; and, on this ground, every transgressor was r...
LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD - The word “dead” is used in this passage in two different senses. It is apparently a paradox, but is suited to convey the idea very distinctly to the mind. The Jews used...
6. THE KING MANIFESTED BY SIGNS OF DIVINE POWER. Chapter s 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5 .) 3. The Healing of P...
ASPIRANTS TO DISCIPLESHIP (Luke 9:57). Mt. here breaks away from Mk.'s order, omitting Mark 1:35, and giving as the sequel to Jesus-' first stay at Capernaum what Mk. (Mark 4:35 to...
FOLLOW ME. The highest of all duties, now discharged by becoming his disciple, obeying him and making his life our example. It, also, when he was on earth in person implied to follow his footsteps an...
When Jesus saw the great crowds surrounding him, he gave orders to go away, across to the other side. A scribe came to him. "Teacher, he said, "I will follow you wherever you may be going." Jesus said...
LOVE IN ACTION (Matthew 8:1-34) Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there...
LET. leave. THE DEAD. corpses. Note the-well-known Figure of speech _Antanaclasis_ (App-6), by which one word is used twice in the same sentence with two meanings which _clash_ against each other: "l...
Fitness for Discipleship. Luke 9:57-62 St Luke names three instances, and places the scene of the incident in Samaria. The instances are typical of the way in which Jesus deals with different charac...
_let the dead bury their dead_ Or, THEIR OWN DEAD. The exact force of this is not quite clear. The word "dead" is used first in a figurative, secondly, in a literal sense. In a figurative sense by the...
FITNESS FOR DISCIPLESHIP Luke 9:57-62. St Luke names three instances, and places the scene of the incident in Samaria. The instances are typical of the way in which Jesus deals with different charact...
ΘΆΨΑΙ ΤΟῪΣ ἙΑΥΤΩ͂Ν ΝΕΚΡΟΎΣ. The exact force of this is not quite clear. The word ‘dead’ is used first in a figurative, secondly, in a literal sense, as in John 11:25-26. In a figurative sense by the ‘...
Ver 18. Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. 19. And a certain Scribe came, and said unto him, "Master, I will follow thee whithersoever th...
_MIRACLES DEMANDED A FOLLOWING MATTHEW 8:16-22:_ Matthew tells us the Jesus did that which Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would do. (Matthew 8:16-17) "When evening had come, they brought to Him ma...
ΆΚΟΛΟΎΘΕΙ _praes. imper. act., см._ Matthew 8:19. Это призыв к апостольскому служению. _Praes. imper._ указывает на образ жизни. ΆΦΕΣ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) покидать, позволять, разрешат...
DISCOURSE: 1336 HOW WE ARE TO FOLLOW CHRIST Matthew 8:19. A certain Scribe came and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes hare holes,...
AND ANOTHER—SAID, &C.— The answer of this disciple supposes that our Saviour had ordered him to follow him. See Luke 9:59. It is uncertain whether this disciple's father was just dead, or whether, as...
SECTION 15 JESUS CALLS TO DISCIPLESHIP (Possible parallel: Luke 9:57-62) TEXT: 8:18-22 18. Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. 19....
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Since this is more fully given in Luke, we must take both together. "And He said unto another of his disc...
5-13 Compare Luk_7:1-10. 5 This is followed by an intimation that, though rejected by His own, He would be accepted by the nations, as is the case in the book of Acts. The priest was at one end of the...
THE LEPER CLEANSED. THE CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED. HEALING OF PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER AND MANY OTHERS. STILLING OF THE TEMPEST. HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS 1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40;...
SAYINGS TO A SCRIBE AND ANOTHER DISCIPLE (Luke 9:57). St. Luke introduces these sayings much later in our Lord's ministry. Both evangelists apparently borrowed from a common source, which did not spec...
FOLLOW ME; AND LET THE DEAD, etc.] This difficult saying is variously interpreted: (1) My claim comes before all other claims. It is better that the dead should remain unburied, than that thou shoulde...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 *MIRACLES WHEN JESUS HEALED PEOPLE 8:1–9:38 Matthew showed Jesus’ authority by what he taught in Chapter s 5-7. Now Matthew shows...
LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD. — The point of the half-epigrammatic, half-proverbial saying, lies in the contrast between the two meanings of the word “dead.” “Let those who have no spiritual life ling...
CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...
Ἀκολούθει μοι : the reply is a stern refusal, and the reason apparently hard and unfeeling ἄφες τοὺς νεκροὺς … νεκρούς : word for word the same in Luke (Luke 9:60), an unforgettable, mystic, hard sayi...
_Another disciple_. Ἕτερος, another, not only numerically (ἄλλος), but in type. The first was enthusiastic; this one is hesitating, and needs to be urged; a better, more reliable man, though contrasti...
_Excursion to the eastern shore with its incidents_ (Mark 4:35 to Mark 5:20; Luke 8:22-39). These narratives make a large leap forward in the history. As our evangelist is giving a collection of heali...
LEADER OF MEN AND RULER OF NATURE Matthew 8:18-27 Christ winnows men. Before any enter upon His service, He places before them the inevitable trials which they must meet, among which loneliness and h...
The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power...
_Let the dead bury their dead. The first words, let the dead, cannot mean those that were dead by a corporal death; and therefore must needs be understood of those who were spiritually dead in sin. (W...
CHAPTER 28 JESUS HOMELESS Matthew 8:1-22, & Luke 9:57-62. “And it came to pass, they journeying on the way, a certain one said to Him, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou mayest go, Lord; and Jesus...
As this is the first place in the Gospel we meet with the phrase Son of MAN, in reference to the person of CHRIST; and especially as it is a phrase the LORD JESUS was pleased frequently to make use of...
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...
_A THREEFOLD FOLLOWING_ ‘But Jesus said unto him, follow Me; and let the dead bury their dead.’ Matthew 8:22 Whither must we follow Christ? I. ALONG THE ROAD HE TROD.—That was the road of self-de...
22._Allow the dead to bury their dead. _By these words Christ does not condemn burial: for it would have been shameful and cruel to throw away the bodies of the dead unburied, and we know that the cus...
Then, in chapter 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessi...
BUT JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, FOLLOW THOU ME,.... Christ would not excuse him on this account, but insists on what he had before called him to; to attend upon him, and give himself up to the ministry of th...
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. Ver. 22. _Follow me_] Let go things less necessary, and mind the main. Thy task is long, thy time is short; opportunities are hea...
_And another said, Lord_, &c. Luke informs us, Luke 9:59, that Christ had said to this man, _Follow me_, to which command he replied, as is here stated, _Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father...
LET THE DEAD; the spiritually dead. BURY THEIR DEAD; the literally dead. Let those who are impenitent sinners without spiritual life bury your father, and do you now what I command you. The omniscient...
BUT JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, FOLLOW ME, AND LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD. Here was a man that had belonged to the larger circle of disciples, that had made it a point to remain in the neighborhood of Chri...
Another lesson:...
Now the King comes down among the people from the height from which He had given them wise instruction. For He is not only their teacher: He will experience their sorrows, and show His heart of compas...
18-22 One of the scribes was too hasty in promising; he proffers himself to be a close follower of Christ. He seems to be very resolute. Many resolutions for religion are produced by sudden convictio...
Ver. 21,22. Luke repeating the same history, LUKE 9:59,60, saith that Christ said to this man, _Follow me._ He replies, _Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father; _ to live at home with my fathe...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III They who sing thus, and sing in response, are those who before hymned immortality,-found at last wicked and wickedly singing this most pernicious palinod...
Matthew 8:22 But G1161 Jesus G2424 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 Follow G190 (G5720) Me G3427 and...
TWO DISCIPLES ARE FACED UP WITH THE COST OF FOLLOWING JESUS (8:18-22). Jesus' command to His disciples to prepare to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 8:18) sparks off the need for s...
‘But Jesus says to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.” Jesus' reply is that the man must be willing to immediately turn his back on his family life and follow Jesus. The dead...
Matthew 8:22. LEAVE THE DEAD TO BURY THEIR OWN DEAD. ‘This is a hard saying, and who can bear it' The common interpretation is: Let the (spiritually) dead attend to burying the (naturally) dead. Such...
CHRONOLOGY. Matthew inserts this group of events here; Mark and Luke at a later point. We accept the chronology of Mark, who explicitly says that Jesus crossed the sea on the evening of the day the pa...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
LEAVE THE DEAD TO BURY THEIR OWN DEAD (αφες τους νεκρους θαψα τους εαυτων νεκρους). The spiritually dead are always on hand to bury the physically dead, if one's real duty is with Jesus. Chrysostom...
Matthew 8:22 It was the answer of our Lord to one of His disciples, possibly as an old tradition tells us, to the Apostle Philip, who, before following Him, wished to go and bury his father. The extre...
Matthew 8:16. _When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits, with his word, and healed all that were sick:_ It was the evening after...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,_ Great multitudes often count for nothing; it is here or ther...
Matthew 8:1. _When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper_ You see that particular mention is made of this one special case, and, in any co...
CONTENTS: Jesus heals a leper, the centurion's servant and Peter's wife's mother. Professed disciples tested. Stilling of the waves. Casting-out demons at Gadara. CHARACTERS: Jesus, leper, centurion...
Matthew 8:2. _Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him._ After having preached his sermon, and discovered his doctrine, says Jerome, an opportunity presented itself of displaying miracles, thereb...
FOLLOW ME. Jesus seems harsh in his answer, But, not sol The most important matter is the work which Jesus is doing. Others are fully capable of caring for the parent and seeing to his burial. Put God...
_Master, I will follow Thee._ IMPETUOUS AND HESITATING DISCIPLESHIP I. The significance of Christ’s treatment of the impetuous scribe. He declares his determination to follow Christ, lead where He m...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:22 LEAVE THE DEAD TO BURY THEIR OWN DEAD. While Jesus clearly upholds the biblical command to honor father and mother (see Matthew 15:1), the call t
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 8:1 The Authoritative Power of the Messiah: Kingdom Power Demonstrated. Jesus has shown himself to be the Messiah through his teaching (chs. Matthew 5:1
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THE COST OF FOLLOWING HIM MATTHEW 8:18-22; LUKE 9:51-62; MATTHEW 8:18; MATTHEW 8:18 Now when Jesus saw great multitude
CHAPTER 8 Ver. 2. _And, behold, a leper,_ &c. This same miracle is related by S. Mark (Mar 1:40), and by Luke (Luke 5:12). From a comparison of these it would seem to follow that the miracle was not p...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 8:18. TO DEPART.—Thus Jesus sought repose, and gave to the people time to bear fruit from His teaching, and kindled their interest in Himself for the future (_Bengel_). Matth...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 8:1 MESSIAH'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING. We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework (_vide _I...
Let's turn to Matthew's gospel chapter eight. The fifth chapter of Matthew begins "And seeing the multitude, he went into a mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: And he open...
1 Timothy 5:6; Colossians 2:13; Ephesians 2:1; Ephesians 2:5; E
DISCIPLESHIP IN TRAINING Matthew 8:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Let us consider the insincerity of the multitude. The last study closed with the crowds pressing upon Christ that they might be dispossess...
(CF. LUKE 9:60)— Wasn’t it absurd for Jesus to tell the dead to bury their own dead? PROBLEM: A man wanted to follow Jesus but first asked Jesus if he could go and bury his father. Jesus responded, “...