Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Matthew 12:49
ἰδοὺ ἡ μήτηρ μου καὶ οἱ�. The new life subverts the old relationships. By the spiritual birth new ties of kindred are established.
ἰδοὺ ἡ μήτηρ μου καὶ οἱ�. The new life subverts the old relationships. By the spiritual birth new ties of kindred are established.
See also Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19. HIS BRETHREN - There has been some difference of opinion about the persons who are referred to here, some supposing that they were children of Mary his mother, others th...
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...
The connexion of Matthew 12:43 is with Matthew 12:30, as is shown by Lk.; neutrality in the spiritual life cannot last. The point of the illustration is that the Jews had felt the influence of John an...
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...
While he was still speaking to the crowds, look you, his mother and his brothers stood outside, for they were seeking an opportunity to speak to him. Someone said to him: "Look you, your mother and yo...
STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND TOWARD. He pointed to....
_Behold my mother and my brethren_ The new life subverts the old relationships. By the spiritual birth new ties of kindred are established....
Jesus is sought by His Mother and Brethren. The true Mother and Brethren of Jesus Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21 The account is given with very slight variation by the three Synoptists. But see Mark 3:2...
Ver 46. While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47. Then one said unto him, "Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without...
_THE INVITATION OF THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:46-50:_ Mary had other children after the birth of our Lord. Matthew 13:55 records, "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his br...
ΈΚΤΕΊΝΑΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.)_, _см._ Matthew 12:13. ΜΑΘΗΤΉΣ (G3101) ученик. Те, кто на собственном примере демонстрирует, чего ожидает Иисус от каждого желающего поддерживать с Ним отношения...
DISCOURSE: 1359 CHRIST’S REGARD TO HIS OBEDIENT FOLLOWERS Matthew 12:46. While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said...
Section 30 JESUS REFUSES TO ALLOW FLESHLY TIES TO BIND HIM (Parallels: Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21) TEXT: 12:46-50 46. While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brethr...
And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! AND HE STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND TOWARD HIS DISCIPLES. How graphic is this! It is the language evid...
42 “The ends of the earth,” an expression which does not include the sea, would describe any location on Eurasia or Africa not far from the further coast line. 43-45 Compare Luk_11:24-26 43 Actual i...
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...
HIS MOTHER AND BRETHREN (Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19). Jesus here, as on other occasions, declares Himself independent of family ties, and united by spiritual kinship to all who do God's will. _THE BRETHREN...
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...
BEHOLD MY MOTHER AND MY BRETHREN. — The words assert in its strongest form the truth which we all acknowledge, that though natural relationships involve duties which may not be neglected, spiritual re...
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'...
ἐκτείνας τ. χ.: an eloquent gesture, making the words following, for those present, superfluous. ἰδού, etc. There are idealists, promoters of pet schemes, and religious devotees whom it would cost no...
_The relatives of Jesus_ (Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21). Matthew and Mark place this incident in connection with the discourse occasioned by Pharisaic calumny. Luke gives it in a quite different connect...
OPPOSING OR DOING GOD'S WILL Matthew 12:38-50 It was an evil and adulterous age. It had no spiritual appreciation, and was intent on getting an outward and sensible sign. Nineveh itself would have co...
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...
(11) And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! (11) None are more near unto us than they that are of the household of faith....
CONSANGUINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35; & Luke 8:19; Luke 8:21;...
"While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. (47) Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desir...
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...
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...
AND HE STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND TOWARDS HIS DISCIPLES,.... By whom are meant, not only the twelve, but all others present, who truly believed in him, both men and women; and who might sit near him and...
And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! Ver. 49. _Behold my mother and my brethren_] _Sanctior est copula cordis quam corporis._ Spiritual ki...
Mat. 12:49, 50. "And He stretched forth His hand toward His disciples, and said, Behold, My mother and My brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of My Father which is in heaven, the same is My brot...
_While he yet talked with the people_ While he was uttering these solemn truths, and giving these awful warnings, in the audience of the vast multitudes that were gathered around him: _behold, his mot...
CHRIST'S RELATIVES. Matthew 12:46...
AND HE STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND TOWARD HIS DISCIPLES AND SAID, BEHOLD MY MOTHER AND MY BRETHREN!...
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...
46-50 Christ's preaching was plain, easy, and familiar, and suited to his hearers. His mother and brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him, when they should have been standing within, desir...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:50"....
Matthew 12:49 And G2532 out G1614 (G5660) His G846 hand G5495 toward G1909 His G846 disciples G3101 said...
THE TRUE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD (12:46-50). In contrast with the house of old one-time Israel is the household of the new Israel of God, the ‘household of God' (Ephesians 2:19). In describing this episode M...
‘But he answered and said to the one who told him, “Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?” And he stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!” ' Bu...
Matthew 12:49. AND HE STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND TOWARD HIS DISCIPLES. MARK 3:33: ‘He looked round about on them which sat about him,' hence ‘disciples' in the wider sense. BEHOLD MY MOTHER AND MY BRE...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. These occurrences seem to have followed each other in immediate succession. Luke places the last one (Matthew 12:46-50) after the parable of the sower, but Mark gives the same order...
BEHOLD MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS (ιδου η μητηρ μου κα ο αδελφο μου). A dramatic wave of the hand towards his disciples (learners) accompanied these words. Jesus loved his mother and brothers, but th...
Matthew 12:46 Jesus and His Brethren. Consider: I. the brethren of the boyhood of Jesus. Christ was born into the home and was to live in a brotherhood, with no opportunity for exclusiveness permitt...
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...
48-49. WHO IS MY MOTHER? WHO ARE MY BROTHERS? The fact he is the Messiah supersedes ordinary relationships. LOOK! HERE ARE MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS! The strongest ties are the spiritual ties. Those...
_The same is My brother, and sister, and mother._ CHRISTIANS ARE CHRIST’S RELATIONS I. That Jesus here implies that the supreme relationships of life are moral 1. It is similar to that of the famil...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:49 HERE ARE MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHERS. Jesus’ messianic mission takes priority even over family loyalties. ⇐...
JESUS DESCRIBES HIS TRUE FAMILY MATTHEW 12:46-50; MARK 3:31-35; LUKE 8:19-21; MATTHEW 12:46 While he yet talked to the people, be
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:46. HIS BRETHREN.—See on Matthew 13:55. DESIRING TO SPEAK WITH HIM.—A motive is assigned (Mark 3:21). It would seem that the Pharisees, on the pretext that Jesus had a demo...
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...
John 17:20; John 17:8; John 17:9; John 20:17; Mark 3:34;...
Disciples [μ α θ η τ α ς]. Not the apostles only, but all who followed him in the character of learners. The Anglo - Saxon renders learning knights....
See the highest severity, and the highest goodness! Severity to his natural, goodness to his spiritual relations! In a manner disclaiming the former, who opposed the will of his heavenly Father, and o...