Verse Matthew 9:37. _THE HARVEST_] The souls who are ready to receive the truth are very numerous; _but the labourers are few_. There are _multitudes_ of scribes, Pharisees, and priests, of _reverend...
THE HARVEST TRULY IS PLENTEOUS ... - Another beautiful image. A waving field of golden grain invites many reapers and demands haste. By the reference to the harvest here, he meant that the multitude o...
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. ...
MATTHEW 9:36 TO MATTHEW 10:4. THE SENDING OF THE TWELVE. Jesus sees the people distressed and scattered better, mishandled and lying helpless utterly unprepared, through lack of spiritual guidance and...
THE HARVEST TRULY IS PLENTEOUS, BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW. First the people are represented under the figure of sheep, scattering abroad, without. shepherd's care; next as. ripe and abandoned harvest,...
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is great, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers for his harvest." Here is one of the most characteristic...
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...
TRULY. indeed. PLENTEOUS. great....
Ὁ ΜῈΝ ΘΕΡΙΣΜῸΣ ΠΟΛΎΣ. The same expression occurs Luke 10:2 on the occasion of sending forth the Seventy: cp. also John 4:35, θεάσασθε τὰς χώρας, ὅτι λευκαί εἰσιν πρὸς θερισμὸν ἤδη....
THE PREACHING OF JESUS. THE HARVEST OF THE WORLD This passage forms the preface to the mission of the twelve. The connection points to a regular sequence of thought in St Matthew’s plan. The work of C...
VER 36. BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES, HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION ON THEM, BECAUSE THEY FAINTED, AND WERE SCATTERED ABROAD, AS SHEEP HAVING NO SHEPHERD. 37. THEN SAITH HE UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, "THE H...
_COMPASSION HEALED THE BLIND, MUTE AND CALLED FOR LABORERS MATTHEW 9:27-38:_ The request of the blind men was, "have pity and mercy on us." In compassion Jesus touched their eyes and gave them sight....
ΘΕΡΙΣΜΌΣ (G2326) сбор урожая. Окончание указывает на деятельность. Кроме того, есть указание на "духовную восприимчивость" (EGT) или суд в конце времени (Hill; DA)....
DISCOURSE: 1340 OUR DUTY TO THE BENIGHTED WORLD Matthew 9:36. when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scatteredm abroad, as sheep having no she...
THE HARVEST TRULY IS PLENTEOUS— The multitude that followed Jesus, and expressed so earnest a desire of receiving his instruction, gave him an occasion of making this reflection. He compares Judaea an...
SECTION 22 JESUS EVANGELIZES GALILEE AND SHARES HIS VISION WITH HIS DISCIPLES (Parallel; Mark 6:6 b) TEXT: 9:35-38 35. And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their syna...
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; THEN SAITH HE UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, THE HARVEST TRULY IS PLENTEOUS. His eye doubtless rested immediately...
14 It is a most difficult lesson for the saints to learn, that God's dealings with His creatures change, and that their conduct should change accordingly, John's disciples thought that the Lord's foll...
TOURS OF JESUS IN GALILEE (peculiar to St. Matthew, but cp. Mark 6:6; Mark 6:34; Luke 10:2). The early tours of Jesus in Galilee enabled Him to gain a comprehensive view of the actual spiritual condit...
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...
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...
THEN SAITH HE UNTO HIS DISCIPLES. — No where in the whole Gospel record is there a more vivid or more touching instance of the reality of our Lord’s human emotions. It is not enough for Him to feel co...
CHAPTER 9 The King's Ambassadors - Matthew 9:36; Matthew 10:1 I - THE MISSION. Matthew 9:36 - Matthew 10:1 So far the Kin
These verses look both backwards and forwards, winding up the preceding narrative of words and deeds from chap. 5 onwards, and introducing a new aspect of Christ's work and experience. The connection...
θερισμὸς : a new figure coming in abruptly in the narrative, but not necessarily so close together in Christ's mind. The one figure suits the mood of passive sympathy; the other, that of the harvest,...
PLANNING THE HARVEST Matthew 9:35-38; Matthew 10:1-4 A new chapter in our Lord's ministry opens at this point. As He walked amid the crowded towns and villages of Galilee, His heart was deeply moved....
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...
HE SENDS OUT THE TWELVE Matthew 9:37-38. _“Then He says to His disciples, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest, in order that He may send out th...
What an interesting sight must it have been to have seen Jesus thus engaged, preaching the doctrines of grace, and confirming the word with ministering to all the wants of nature. And I beg the Reader...
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...
37._The harvest is indeed abundant _By this metaphor he intimates, that many of the people are ripe for receiving the gospel. Though the greater number afterwards rejected basely and with vile ingrati...
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...
THEN SAITH HE UNTO HIS DISCIPLES,.... His heart being drawn out, and filled with pity to these poor people, upon observing the miserable and sad condition they were in; he turns himself to his discipl...
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly _is_ plenteous, but the labourers _are_ few; Ver. 37. _But the labourers few_] Such as will labour to lassitude (εργαται) in preaching Christ cruci...
_Then saith he to his disciples_ To quicken their devotion and zeal, _The harvest_ Namely, of souls to be gathered in, _is plenteous_ The multitudes that followed Jesus, and expressed so earnest a des...
PLENTEOUS; there are vast multitudes who need the gospel....
Christ's compassion:...
THEN SAITH HE UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, THE HARVEST, TRULY, IS PLENTEOUS, BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW....
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...
35-38 Jesus visited not only the great and wealthy cities, but the poor, obscure villages; and there he preached, there he healed. The souls of the meanest in the world are as precious to Christ, and...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 9:38"....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I If, then, "the harvest is plenteous, but the labourers few," it is incumbent on us "to pray" that there may be as great abundance of labourers as possible.[13]...
Matthew 9:37 Then G5119 said G3004 (G5719) His G846 disciples G3101 harvest G2326 truly G3303 plentiful G4183 but...
Then says he to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.” ' Jesus saw the...
Matthew 9:37. HIS DISCIPLES. Probably including more than the twelve. THE HARVEST, etc. The people were ready to hear; but could not, if more did not enter into the work. As yet, He was the only lab...
CONNECTION. The concluding verses of chap. 9, referring to a definite occasion, form a fit introduction to an account of the formal sending out of the Apostles. Matthew has already mentioned the first...
Matthew 9:36 Jesus Seeing the People. Note: I. What Jesus saw. He saw the multitudes. The range of His vision could not be limited, nor His ministry confined, to the immediate requirement of the mor...
Matthew 9:36. _But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd._ The sight that Christ saw with his...
9:35. _And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people._ This wa...
Matthew 9:27. _And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house,_ I suppose the house at Capern...
Matthew 9:18. _While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall li...
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...
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...
THERE IS A LARGE HARVEST. First the people were symbolically "wandering sheep without a shepherd." Now he speaks of them as a "ripe harvest," about to be lost unless someone gathers it into the storag...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 9:36 Jesus’ COMPASSION is a regular theme in Matthew 1:1 (Ma
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...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 9:36_ Preparing for change.—We seem here to be like men arriving at a new stage on their journey. At such a juncture they naturally ask, on the one hand, ho...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:13; 1 Timothy 5:17;...
The harvest truly is great — When Christ came into the world, it was properly the time of harvest; till then it was the seed time only. But the labourers are few — Those whom God sends; who are holy,...
As if Christ had said, "There is. great number of people that are willing and prepared to receive instructions, but there are but few who are able to instruct these poor people in the ways of righteou...