Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 9:8
So what was to the scribes an occasion of blaspheming, was to the people an incitement to praise God.
So what was to the scribes an occasion of blaspheming, was to the people an incitement to praise God.
MATTHEW 9:8 evfobh,qhsan {A} Superficial readers and copyists, failing to see the deep meaning of “were afraid” (i.e., people felt a profound sense of awe and alarm in the presence of One who had the...
Verse Matthew 9:8. _WHEN THE MULTITUDES SAW_ IT, _THEY MARVELLED_] Instead of εθαυμασαν, _wondered_, the Codex _Vatic_. and Cod. _Bezae_, with several other MSS. and versions, have εφοβηθησαν, _feare...
THEY GLORIFIED GOD - See the notes at Matthew 5:16. To “glorify” God, here, means to “praise him,” or to acknowledge his power. The expression, “which had given such power to people,” was a part of “t...
CHAPTER 9 1. A Man Sick of the Palsy Healed. (Matthew 9:1 .) 2. The Call of Matthew (Matthew 9:9 .) 3. With the Publicans and the Sinners. (Matthew 9:10 .) 4. The Question of John's Disciples. ...
THE HEALING OF THE PARALYTIC (Mark 2:1 * Luke 5:17). Mt. here resumes Mk.'s order; Matthew 8:18 *. As usual he condenses the narrative, saying nothing of the dense crowd round the house or of the devi...
THE MULTITUDE... MARVELLED. Three emotions are mentioned on the part of the multitude: (1) wonder, (2) gratitude, which is the sense of _Glorified God,_ (3) reverent fear (mentioned by Matthew).--_ P...
Jesus embarked on the boat, and crossed to the other side, and came to his own town. And, look you, they brought to him a paralysed man lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paral...
THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION (Matthew 9:1-34) We have repeatedly seen that in Matthew's gospel there is nothing haphazard. It is carefully planned and carefully designed. In Matthew 9:1-38 we see another...
MULTITUDES. crowds. So verses: Matthew 9:33; Matthew 9:36. "people" in verses: Matthew 9:23; Matthew 9:25....
Matthew 9:1-8. Cure of a Man afflicted with Paralysis Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:18-26 Both St Mark and St Luke notice the crowding of the people to hear Jesus, and narrate the means by which the sufferer...
CURE OF A MAN AFFLICTED WITH PARALYSIS Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:18-26. Both St Mark and St Luke notice the crowding of the people to hear Jesus, and narrate the means by which the sufferer was brought in...
ἘΦΟΒΉΘΗΣΑΝ. ἐθαύμασαν of _textus receptus_ is a gloss....
Ver 1. And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. 2. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the...
_WISDOM FROM ABOVE CONCERNING DIVORCE MATTHEW 19:1-12:_ The Pharisees tested Jesus with the question, "Is it lawful and right to dismiss and divorce one's wife for any and every cause?" They intended...
_COMPASSION FORGAVE AND HEALED A PARALYZED MAN. MATTHEW 9:1-8_ : When the Gadarenes asked Jesus to leave He took them at their word. (Matthew 8:34) He got into a boat and went to Capernaum. Capernaum...
ΊΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) pl. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. "Когда они увидели это" ΈΦΟΒΉΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΦΟΒΈΟΜΑΙ (G5399) бояться, пугаться, ΈΔΌΞΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ ...
BUT WHEN THE MULTITUDE SAW IT— The _people_ were struck with a high degree of surprise, mixed with admiration. What was to the _Scribes_ an occasion of blasphemy, proved to them an incitement to prais...
SECTION 18 JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS A PARALYTIC (Parallels: Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26) TEXT: 9:2-8 2. And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing the...
And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. This incident appears to follow next in order of time to the cure of the leper (Matthew 8:1). For the exposition, see the no...
25 Ever and anon, while revealing His own glory and exercising the faith of His followers, our Lord presents a marvelous prophetic picture of the course of the kingdom proclamation. Here we have a pre...
9:8 power (b-15) _ Exousia_ , 'right,' 'authority.' see Note, ch. 10.1 and John 10:18 ....
THE SICK OF THE PALSY. CALL OF MATTHEW. RAISING OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER 1-8. The paralytic healed and his sins forgiven (Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17). The peculiarity of this miracle is that it was worked to prov...
WHICH HAD GIVEN SUCH POWER (RM 'authority') UNTO MEN] The saying is a striking one. Although one man alone had exercised the power, the people rightly perceived that there had been established the pri...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK 9:1-8 V1 Then Jesus stepped into a boat. He went back across the lake and arrived at his own town. V...
THEY MARVELLED. — The better reading, adopted by most editors, gives _they were afraid._ This agrees better with St. Mark’s “they were amazed, and glorified God,” and St. Luke’s “they were filled with...
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...
ἰδόντες οἱ ὄχλοι. The people are free from the petty jealousies and pedantic theories of the professional class; broad facts settle the matter for them. They probably had no scruples about the forgivi...
_The palsied man_ (Mark 2:1-12; Luke 5:17-26)....
THE FORGIVER OF SINS Matthew 9:1-8 How inventive and ingenious is human love! Not improbably this was a young man and the others had been his schoolmates and friends for years. They had come to a ste...
The King now exercised His authority in a new way. He pronounced pardon on a sinner, and straightway opposition was aroused. To the questioning and rebellious hearts He vindicated His authority to for...
_Feared, and glorified God. Here it may be observed, that the people, before they praised, feared God, for the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. And St. Basil says, that fear, as a good guide, n...
HE HEALS A PARALYTIC Matthew 9:2-8; Mark 2:1-12; & Luke 5:17-26. Mark: “And again He came into Capernaum during those days, and it was heard that He is at home. And immediately the multitudes came tog...
In the relation of this miracle by Mark, he names Capernaum as the place where it was wrought; so that this may serve to teach us, that when Christ's own city is spoken of, it means Capernaum, and not...
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._And the multitudes who saw _Instead of _astonishment _which Matthew mentions, (511) the other two Evangelists employ the word ἔκστασις, or amazement: and Luke adds _fear _But the design of all the...
In the following chapter (chapter 9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases...
BUT WHEN THE MULTITUDE SAW IT,.... The miracle that was wrought; when they saw the man take up his bed, and carry it home, which was done by Christ, as a proof of his having power to forgive sin, THE...
But when the multitudes saw _it_, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. Ver. 8. _They marvelled and glorified God_] When the proud Pharisees blasphemed and were hard...
_Behold, certain of the scribes_, (Luke adds, _and Pharisees,_) _said within themselves_ That is, in their hearts, _This man blasphemeth_ Attributing to himself a power (that of forgiving sins) which...
UNTO MEN; it was not a man that had done this divine work, but God manifest in the flesh. 1 Timothy 3:16....
BUT WHEN THE MULTITUDES SAW IT, THEY MARVELED, AND GLORIFIED GOD, WHICH HAD GIVEN SUCH POWER UNTO MEN. They were not interested in the scruples of the scribes and Pharisees; the miracle settled the ma...
Returning to His own city, Capernaum, He has brought to Him a man totally helpless, lying on a bed. This case of palsy is indicative of the complete debilitating effects of sin: man is left without st...
1-8 The faith of the friends of the paralytic in bringing him to Christ, was a strong faith; they firmly believed that Jesus Christ both could and would heal him. A strong faith regards no obstacles...
Ver. 7,8. Mark saith. _And immediately he arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion,_ MARK...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And therefore, when He had healed the man sick of the palsy, [the evangelist] says "The people upon seeing it glorified God, who gave such power unto men."[148]...
Matthew 9:8 when G1161 multitudes G3793 saw G1492 (G5631) marveled G2296 (G5656) and G2532 glorified G1392 ...
‘But when the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.' Matthew is not interested in the reaction of the Scribes. His concern was for the glory of God....
THE HEALING OF THE PARALYTIC (9:1-8). We come now to the third of these revelations of Jesus' authority. He has revealed His authority over some of the most powerful forces of this world, He has revea...
CHRONOLOGY AND CONNECTION. Three Evangelists join together the events we group in this section. Mark and Luke, however, place them immediately after the healing of the leper near Capernaum. We agree w...
Matthew 9:8. THEY WERE AFRAID (according to the best authorities). Either a religious awe, awakened by the higher character in which Jesus had presented Himself, or a spiritual conflict echoing that b...
Matthew 9:1 Jesus and Man's deepest Sadness. I. "Jesus saw their faith." Jesus did not see their faith because there was in them no other commendable quality for Him to see; there was their common at...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city._ Our Lord had given these Gergesenes an opportunity of becoming his disciples, the kingdom of God had come very...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith_ The fait...
CONTENTS: Healing of the palsied man. Call of Matthew. Answering the Pharisees. Healing of woman with issue of blood. Daughter of a ruler raised from the dead. Two blind men healed. A demon cast out....
Matthew 9:1. _Jesus came into his own city,_ Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Matthew...
WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW IT. _"And his title will be: Wonderful Counselor"_ (Isaiah 9:6)....
_A man sick of the palsy._ THE HIGHEST CAUSE FOR JOY I. The miserable condition of a human being. II. The power and love of Jesus. III. thy joyous change produced. (_American Homiletical Review._)...
JESUS HEALS A PARALYZED MAN MATTHEW 9:1-8; MARK 2:1-12; LUKE 5:17-26; MATTHEW 9:1 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his ow
CHAPTER 9 _Passed over_ : that is, sailed across the sea of Galilee, to its western side. _And came into his own city._ Sedulius thinks Bethlehem is meant because he was born there. S. Jerome, with mo...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 9:1. SHIP.—_Boat_ (R.V.). HIS OWN CITY.—Capernaum (see Matthew 4:13; Mark 2:1). Matthew 9:2. PALSY.—Suff
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 9:1 _The_ _paralytic forgiven and healed. _Parallel passages: Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17. (For connexion of thought, cf....
And so he entered into a ship, and he passed over, and he came to his own city (Matthew 9:1). His own city being Capernaum. I told you that was his headquarters. And, behold, they brought to him a ma...
Acts 4:21; Galatians 1:24; Luke 17:15; Luke 23:47; Luke 5:25;...
QUERIES AND CRITICISMS AGAINST CHRIST Matthew 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Jesus Christ came among men and announced Himself as One sent from the Father. He claimed every attribute of Deity, announced Him...