Ahimelech, the priest at Nob, gave David and his companions five loaves of the shewbread (1 Samuel 21:1-7). ‘It is no improbable conjecture that David came to Nob either on the Sabbath itself, or when the Sabbath was but newly gone.’ Lightfoot, Hor. Heb. ad loc.
Verse Matthew 12:3. _HAVE YE NOT READ WHAT DAVID DID_] The original history is in 1 Samuel 21:1. _WHEN HE WAS AN HUNGERED_] Here hearken to _Kimchi_, producing the opinion of the ancients concerning...
BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM ... - To vindicate his disciples, he referred them to a similar case, recorded in the Old Testament, and therefore one with which they ought to have been acquainted. This was the...
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...
SABBATH OBSERVANCE (Mark 2:23 *, Luke 6:1). The incident shows that the disciples were learning their Master's teaching. Deuteronomy 23:25 allowed the practice, but the Rabbinical objection to it on t...
II. THE LORD OF THE SABBATH. 3. HAVE YE NOT READ? Many of our mistakes would be rectified, and our unjust censures of others corrected, if we would but recollect what _we have read_ in the Scripture...
At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, ...
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...
HAVE YE NOT READ. ? This question was asked by the Lord on six different occasions, and referred to seven different books of the O.T., and to ten distinct passages. See App-143. WHAT DAVID DID. Refer...
Matthew 12:1-13. The Observance of the Sabbath 1. The disciples pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath. 2. A man with a withered hand cured on the Sabbath. St Mark 2:23-28; Mark 3:1-5; St...
Ahimelech, the priest at Nob, GAVE David and HIS companions five loaves of the shewbread (1 Samuel 21:1-7)....
Ver 1. At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. 2. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto...
_THE PHARISEES REJECTED THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:1-21_ : The Bible is plain in showing that it is wrong to fail to be as strict as God intents. But, the Bible also shows that it is wrong to be stricter t...
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BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, &C.— Concerning this transaction see the note on Mark 2:25. By the _house of God_ is not meant the _temple,_ for it was not then built; but the court of the tabernacle, which wa...
SECTION 26 JESUS ANSWERS CHARGES OF SABBATH BREAKING (Parallels: Mark 2:23 to Mark 3:6; Luke 6:1-11) TEXT: 12:1-14 I. SUSPICION 1. At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grain-f...
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE NOT READ [or as Mark has it, "Have ye never read"] what...
27 See Joh_3:35; Joh_17:2. 28 It is this God-consciousness, this recognition of His hand in all things, and more especially in that which is opposed to His apparent will, which gives His slaves heart'...
HAVE YE NOT READ] Jesus might have defended His disciples on purely technical grounds, maintaining that they had broken not the Law, but the interpretation which certain rabbis placed upon it. But ins...
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...
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...
HAVE YE NOT READ...? — The question was an appeal to the Pharisees on the ground where they thought themselves strongest. For them it was an argument _à fortiori._ Would they accuse David of sacrilege...
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'...
_Christ's defence_. It is twofold. (1) He shields disciples by examples: David and the priests; to both the faultfinders would defer (Matthew 12:3-5); (2) He indicates the principles involved in the e...
_Plucking ears of corn on the Sabbath_ (Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5). Sabbath observance was one of the leading causes of conflict between Jesus and the guardians of religion and morality. This is the fi...
THE RIGHT USE OF THE SABBATH Matthew 12:1-14 The Pharisees had introduced a large number of minute and absurd restrictions on Sabbath observance; so our Lord set Himself to recover the day of rest fo...
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...
What David, &c.[1] Christ shews them that the law need not always be taken according to the bare letter. --- Into the house of God; i.e. where the tabernacle was then kept: not into the temple, which...
CHAPTER 14 JESUS RETURNS TO GALILEE Matthew 12:1-18; Mark 2:23-28, and Luke 6:1-5. We find that our Lord spent but two weeks at Jerusalem during this tour, preaching and working miracles all the time...
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...
Matthew 12:3._Have you not read what David did? _Christ employs five arguments to refute their calumny. _First, _he apologizes for his disciples by pleading the example of _David, _(1 Samuel 21:6.) Wh...
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...
BUT HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE NOT READ,.... If they had not read the Scriptures, they were very unfit persons either to be teachers, or censurers of others, and must have been very slothful and negli...
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; Ver. 3. _But he said unto them_] They had not proved a breach of the Sabbath, neither coul...
_The Pharisees said, Thy disciples do what is not lawful_ The law of Moses so expressly allowed the plucking ears of corn as one passed through a field, that, malignant as they were, they pretended no...
DAVID; 1 Samuel 21:1-6. The necessity of the case justified him....
The objection of the Pharisees:...
But He said unto them, Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungered, and they that were with him,...
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...
1-8 Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn: the law of God allowed it, Deuteronomy 23:25. This was slender provision for Christ and his disciples; but they were conte...
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‘But he said to them, “Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him, how he entered into the house of God, and they ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for...
CONTROVERSY WITH THE PHARISEES ABOUT THE SABBATH. THE SON OF MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH (12:1-16). In the last passage Matthew has depicted words of Jesus concerning the heavy burden of the Law and th...
THE INCIDENT IN THE GRAINFIELDS (12:1-8). The first incident arises when Jesus and His disciples are walking through some grainfields. Being hungry they pluck some of the grain, and eat it. This is t...
Matthew 12:3. HAVE YE NOT READ WHAT DAVID DID. All three Evangelists record this main argument against the Pharisees. The case of David (1 Samuel 21:1-6) was peculiarly in point. The Pharisees insiste...
CHRONOLOGY. Mark and Luke place the events of this section just before the _choice of the Twelve_, which occurred during our Lord's retirement. The season of the year may have been April, at which tim...
WHAT DAVID DID (τ εποιησεν Δαυειδ). From the necessity of hunger. The first defence made by Christ appeals to the conduct of David (2 Samuel 21:6). David and those with him did "what was not lawful...
WHAT DAVID DID Jesus' action (Matthew 12:1) is highly significant. "What David did" refers to the time of his rejection and persecution by Saul. (1 Samuel 21:6). Jesus here is not so much the rejecte...
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...
JESUS ANSWERED. He cites the case of David to show that what his disciples have done is not wrong. (1 Samuel 21:1-6)...
_Behold Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day._ 1. It is no new thing to see men who are otherwise learned, and are in account for their holiness in the church, to be a...
THE DISCIPLES PICK WHEAT ON THE SABBATH MATTHEW 12:1-8; MARK 2:23-28; LUKE 6:1-5; MATTHEW 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day throug
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 12:1. PLUCK THE EARS OF CORN.—See Deuteronomy 23:25. Matthew 12:3. WHAT DAVID DID.—David’s action was not an apparent contravention of the Sabbath-law, but an apparent contra...
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 Samuel 21:3; Luke 10:26; Luke 6:3; Matthew 12:5; Matthew 19:4;...
Have ye not read what David did — And necessity was a sufficient plea for his transgressing the law in a higher instance....
Did Jesus’ disciples break the Jewish Sabbath law? PROBLEM: Jesus said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17). Yet Jesu...
In these words our Saviour defends the action of his disciples in plucking the ears of corn in their necessity, by. double argument. 1. From David's example: necessity freed him from fault in eating t...