to sit down on the grass Rather, grassy places. St Mark and St Luke mention that they sat in companies "by hundreds and by fifties" (Mark), "by fifties" (Luke). St John notes the time of year; "the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh."
Verse Matthew 14:19. _AND TOOK THE FIVE LOAVES_, c.] This was the act of the father of a family among the Jews-his business it was to take the bread into his hands, and render thanks to God, before an...
A full narrative of the feeding the five thousand is given in each of the other evangelists: in Mark 6:32; in Luke 9:10; in John 6:1....
2. JOHN'S MARTYRDOM. The Fourfold Attitude of the Rejected King. CHAPTER 14 1. John's Martyrdom. (Matthew 14:1 .) 2. The Disciples of John with the Lord Jesus. (Matthew 14:12 .) 3. Feeding the Five...
THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE (Mark 6:35 *, Luke 9:10). The account is somewhat shorter than in Mk. Having already (Matthew 9:36) spoken of Jesus-' compassion for people who were as sheep not having a...
THE TRAGIC DRAMA OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Matthew 14:1-12)...
When Jesus heard the news (of the death of John), he withdrew from there in a boat, into a deserted place alone. When the crowds heard of it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he had dise...
ON. upon. Greek. _epi_. TO. into. Greek. _eis_. HEAVEN. the heaven (sing). See note on Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. brake. after breaking. The bread was made in thin cakes, which had to be broken (not...
ΤΟΥ͂ ΧΌΡΤΟΥ. The plural τοὺς χόρτους (‘grassy places’) has the support of the late MSS.: the gen. sing. is the reading of אBC*. 19. ἈΝΑΚΛΙΘΗ͂ΝΑΙ ἘΠῚ ΤΟΥ͂ ΧΌΡΤΟΥ. St John has ἦν δὲ χόρτος πολὺς ἐν τῷ τ...
JESUS RETIRES TO A DESERT PLACE, WHERE HE FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:5-14. This is the only miracle narrated by all the Evangelists. In St John it prepares the way for the...
Ver 15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, "This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves v...
_PEOPLE WERE HUNGRY AND JESUS CARED MATTHEW 14:13-21:_ "When Jesus heard of it" He went to a "deserted place by Himself." (Matthew 14:13) It is not clear whether Matthew intended us to understand that...
ΚΕΛΕΎΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΚΕΛΕΎΩ (G2753) велеть; обычно выражает устный приказ от старшего (Thayer). Temp, или сопутств. _part._ ΆΝΑΚΛΙΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. inf. от_ ΆΝΑΚΛΊΝΩ (G347) лечь; _pass._ прил...
AND HE COMMANDED THE MULTITUDE, &C.— See the note on John 6:11 where this miracle is related more circumstantially, and where we shall speak more fully concerning it....
Section 34 JESUS FEEDS THE 5000 AND WALKS UPON THE WAVES (Parallels: Mark 6:30-52; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-21) TEXT: 14:13-33 13 Now when Jesus heard _it,_ he withdrew from thence in a boat, to a des...
And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. For the exposition of this section-one of the very few where all the four Evangelists run parallel-see the note...
3 See Lev_18:1620:21. 6-12 Compare Mar_6:21-29. 13-15 Compare Mar_6:30-36; Luk_9:10-12 Joh_6:1-7. 13 Herod's insistence that the Lord was John the baptist was not very reassuring, for He was almost...
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
14:19 blessed. (a-26) Or 'praised.' 'gave thanks.'...
TO SIT DOWN] lit. 'to recline.' St. Mark says that the people sat down in separate companies, which he compares to the beds in a garden. HE BLESSED, etc.] A close resemblance to the consecration in th...
DEATH OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1, 2. Herod's opinion of Jesus (Mark 6:14; Luke 9:7)....
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (Mark 6:30; Luke 9:10; John 6:1). The only miracle recorded by the four evangelists, and also one of the most wonderful. It cannot be accounted for, as some of the miracles o...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JOHN THE *BAPTIST DIES 14:1-12 V1 At that time, the ruler called Herod heard reports about Jesus. V2 So he spoke to his servants....
HE COMMANDED THE MULTITUDE TO SIT DOWN ON THE GRASS. — This, too, was done with a calm and orderly precision. They were to sit down in companies of fifty or a hundred each, and thus the number of thos...
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...
_The feeding_....
_Jesus retires; feeding of thousands_ (Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17)....
κελεύσας, λαβὼν, ἀναβλέψας, participles without copula all leading up to εὐλόγησεν, the central chief action: rapid, condensed narrative, briefly, simply, recounting an amazing event. εὐλόγησεν with a...
ABUNDANCE FOR THE HUNGRY Matthew 14:13-21 Jesus sighed for a little quiet and sought it amid the lonely hills across the lake. The crowds saw where His boat was making for, and hurried round the sho...
The presence and activity of the true King filled the false ruler with alarm. Herod sacrificed John to his lust. Once Herod had heard John, and the remembrance of former conviction was still with him,...
Commanded the multitude to sit down. [3] Lit. to lie down, as it was then the custom of the Jews, and of other nations, at meat. See Mark vi, and John vi. &c. --- He blessed. St. Luke (ix. 16.) says,...
CHAPTER 32 FEEDING THE MULTITUDES Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17; & John 6:1-14. Mark: “And they de
"When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. (14) And Jesus went forth, and saw a...
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...
19._He blessed. _In this passage, as in many others, _blessing _denotes thanksgiving. Now Christ has taught us, by his example, that we cannot partake of our food with holiness and purity, unless we e...
Our Gospel resumes the historical course of these revelations, but in such a manner as to exhibit the spirit by which the people were animated. Herod (loving his earthly power and his own glory more t...
AND HE COMMANDED THE MULTITUDE TO SIT DOWN ON THE GRASS,.... The other evangelists say, that he ordered the disciples to cause the people to sit down; both no doubt were done: the multitude were comma...
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to _his_ disciples, and the...
He _commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass_ Mark says, _by companies_, as we render the phrase συμποσια, συμποσια, which is literally, _companies, companies_, that is, _in separate companies...
BLESSED; he praised the Lord for that provision, and asked him to bless them in the reception of it. Those who labor to save the souls of men should, as they have opportunity and ability, supply the w...
The miracle:...
AND HE COMMANDED THE MULTITUDE TO SIT DOWN ON THE GRASS, AND TOOK THE FIVE LOAVES AND THE TWO FISHES, AND LOOKING UP TO HEAVEN, HE BLESSED, AND BRAKE, AND GAVE THE LOAVES TO HIS DISCIPLES, AND THE DIS...
Now authority in high places is seen to reject Him too, by the deliberate rejection of His forerunner and servant John the Baptist. When King Herod hears of His fame, his conscience is troubled, feari...
13-21 When Christ and his word withdraw, it is best for us to follow, seeking the means of grace for our souls before any worldly advantages. The presence of Christ and his gospel, makes a desert not...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 14:21"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II (love), too, consists of five letters; and our Lord, after[187] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book IX , and each receives from these a sufficient portion....
Matthew 14:19 G2532 commanded G2753 (G5660) multitudes G3793 down G347 (G5683) on G1909 grass G5528 And...
‘And he commanded the crowds to recline on the grass, and he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the dis...
JESUS PROVIDES A MESSIANIC FELLOWSHIP MEAL IN THE WILDERNESS FOR HIS SYMBOLIC NEW COMMUNITY (14:13-21). Jesus, having been rejected by His home country and by the powers that be, has compassion on tho...
Matthew 14:19. TO RECLINE ON THE GRASS. ‘Now there was much grass on the place,' John 6:10. At that season it would be luxuriant, forming an easy and convenient resting-place. They reclined in groups...
The feeding of the Five Thousand is the only miracle mentioned by all four Evangelists, and the first occurrence fully narrated by them all. It also furnishes a definite chronological point for a harm...
TO SIT DOWN ON THE GRASS (ανακλιθηνα επ του χορτου). "Recline," of course, the word means, first aorist passive infinitive. A beautiful picture in the afternoon sun on the grass on the mountain side...
Matthew 14:15 Jesus and His Bounty. I. The problem of the disciples. The desert place, the night, and the multitude without food, presented a problem that might well constitute reason for anxiety to...
Matthew 14:14. _And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick._ Different persons take different views of multitudes, according...
Matthew 14:13. _When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by a ship into a desert place apart:_ It is well for us to get alone with God when he takes home the best and most faithful of his servants....
CONTENTS: Herod's troubled conscience and the murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the water. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist, Herod, Herodias, and her daughter, disciples. CO...
Matthew 14:2. _This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead._ Mark indicates that Herod was a sadducee by those words of Christ, Beware of the leaven of the sadducees beware of the leaven of He...
HE ORDERED THE PEOPLE TO SIT. They sat down in rows (Mark 6:40) AND GAVE THANKS TO GOD. He asked God to bless this food. [People at that time, stood up, with eyes and hands raised toward the sky, as t...
_They need not depart; give ye them to eat._ CHRIST FEEDING THE MULTITUDE The miracles of Jesus were: (1) public; (2) beneficent. I. The nature and circumstances of the miracle. 1. When was it w...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 14:15 These verses record Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000, the only miracle from Jesus’ earthly ministry recorded in all four Gospels (compare Mark 6:32;...
Jesus feeds five thousand Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15;...
CHAPTER 14 The first eleven verses of this chapter relate to the decollation of John the Baptist, of which I have spoken at length on the sixth chapter of S. Mark. _His Body_ : Syriac, _sclado_, i.e....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 14:13. HE DEPARTED THENCE.—Matthew traces the withdrawal from Capernaum to the eastern side of the lake to the news of John Baptist’s martyrdom. Luke tells us that Herod desir...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 14:1 CHRIST'S POWER TO SUPPLY AND PROTECT AND HEAL, PREFACED BY A STATEMENT OF HEROD'S RELATION T
And at that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus. And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he's risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in...
1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Corinthians 11:24; 1 Samuel 9:13;...
Brake. As the Jewish loaves were thin cakes, a thumb's breadth in thickness, and more easily broken than cut....