So Jesus called them. They had not showed their anger to Jesus. You know. To show them the difference between his Kingdom and the kingdoms of the world, he points out what they already know. The rulers and leaders of government domineer their people.
Verse Matthew 20:25. _EXERCISE DOMINION - AND - EXERCISE AUTHORITY UPON THEM._] They _tyrannized_ and _exercised arbitrary power_ over the people. This was certainly true of the governments in our Lo...
See also Mark 10:35. Matthew 20:20 THEN CAME TO HIM GIVE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE’S CHILDREN ... - This was probably Salome, Mark 15:40;...
8. THE PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD. The Healing of the Two Blind Men. CHAPTER 20 1. The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. (Matthew 20:1 .) 2. The Third Prediction of His Death an...
THE REQUEST OF THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE. THE CHRISTIAN STANDARD OF GREATNESS (Mark 10:35 *, Luke 22:24). Mt. makes the mother of James and John ask the boon, but Jesus replies to them, not to her. For Mk.'...
At that time the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons, kneeling before him, and asking something from him. He said to her, "What do you wish?" She said to him, "Speak the word that these...
THE MASTER SEEKS HIS WORKERS (Matthew 20:1-16)...
EXERCISE DOMINION. lord it over. THEY THAT ARE GREAT. the great ones. EXERCISE AUTHORITY UPON. The Prep, _kata_ (= down. App-104.) in the verb implies. bad sense and. oppress them. Compare Luke 22:2...
_Jesus called them unto him, and said_ Jesus points out the inversion of earthly ideas in the Kingdom of heaven. The gradation and contrast of the original are hardly brought out in E. V. In the Kingd...
Salome's Prayer for her sons, and the Answer of Jesus Mark 10:35-41. St Mark begins "And James and John the sons of Zebedee came unto him, saying, &c." For once St Matthew is more graphic and true to...
Jesus points out the inversion of earthly ideas in the Kingdom of heaven. This important ‘rule’ of the Master is thrown into the form of Hebrew parallelism. The antithesis is complete. In the Kingdom...
SALOME’S PRAYER FOR HER SONS, AND THE ANSWER OF JESUS Mark 10:35-45. St Mark begins ‘And James and John the sons of Zebedee came unto him, saying, &c.’ For once St Matthew is more graphic and true to...
Ver24. And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. 25. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, "Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion o...
_AT THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY IS THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE MATTHEW 20:20-28:_ On at least three occasions there was a discussion among the apostles concerning greatness in the kingdom. (Matthew 18:1-4; Ma...
ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΕΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. part. от_ ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΈΟΜΑΙ (G23) призывать к себе. Temp, или сопутств. _part._ ΆΡΧΟΝΤΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΆΡΧΩ (G758) правитель; здесь относится к земной власти вообще (EDNT). ΚΑΤΑ...
THE PRINCES OF THE GENTILES— _Of the nations around._ For God had prescribed to the children of Israel a just and equitable form of government. See Deuteronomy 17:14., to the end. The word rendered, _...
Section 52 JESUS REFUSES TO ESTABLISH HIERARCHY (Parallel: Mark 10:35-45) TEXT: 20:20-28 20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping _him,_ and asking a certain...
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 10:32....
20 James and John were the sons of Zebedee (Mar_:10:35). Our Lord called them “sons of thunder” (Mar_3:17), to indicate their tempestuous and violent disposition. The gentleness and love of John's wri...
THE AMBITION OF THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE (Mark 10:35). The special promise to Peter (Matthew 16:18) had aroused the jealousy of the other two most intimate disciples, who now came to claim the two most pro...
THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD. THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM 1-16, Parable of the labourers in the vineyard (peculiar to St. Matthew). This difficult parable is closely linked with what goes before, and ca...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 20 THE STORY ABOUT THE LAND-OWNER’S WORKERS 20:1-16 V1 ‘Where God rules, it is like this. A man who owned land went out early one mo...
YE KNOW THAT THE PRINCES OF THE GENTILES. — No words of reproof could more strongly point the contrast between the true and the false views of the Messiah’s kingdom. The popular Jewish expectations, s...
CHAPTER 16 To Jerusalem - Matthew 20:17 - Matthew 21:1 I-THE GOING UP. Matthew 20:17 WE have now reached the last stage of the long and sorrowful journey to Jerusalem. From the corresponding passage...
_The two sons of Zebedee_ (Mark 10:35-45)....
προσκαλεσάμενος : Jesus had to call them to Him, therefore they had had the decency not to quarrel in His presence. _Magistro non praesente_, Beng. κατακυριεύουσιν : in the Sept [113] used in the sens...
_Commotion in the disciple-circle_....
SERVING NOBLER THAN SELF-SEEKING Matthew 20:17-28 For the third time our Lord foretells His death. In Matthew 16:21, He dwelt especially on the shame of His rejection; in Matthew 17:23, He told how t...
One great principle of rewards is laid down in this parable. It is that they will be given, not according to length or amount of service, but according to fidelity to opportunities. The Master was now...
But Jesus called them [unto him], and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise (g) dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. (g) Somewhat sharply and ro...
Princes of the Gentiles lord it over them: tyrannize over those that are under them, by arbitrary and violent proceedings. (Witham) --- Our Lord wishing to extinguish the indignation conceived against...
AMBITION OF JAMES AND JOHN Matthew 20:20-28; Mark 1:35-45. “James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to Him, saying, Teacher, we wish that You may do to us whatsoever we may ask. And He said to them,...
"And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. (25) But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over th...
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...
_THE REFORM OF THE IDLER_ ‘Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us.’ Matthew 20 part Matthew 20:6 This parable is one of the most difficult in the New Te...
25._You know that the princes of the Gentiles rule over them. _It is first said that Christ _called them to him, _that he might reprove them in private; and next we learn from it that, being ashamed o...
We may remark that, when the Lord answers Peter, it was the consequence of having left all for Christ upon His call. The motive was Christ Himself: therefore He says, "Ye which have followed me." He s...
BUT JESUS CALLED THEM UNTO HIM,.... All his twelve disciples, perceiving that the same ambitious views prevailed in them all: to discourage which, and to prevent their quarrelling one with another, he...
But Jesus called them _unto him_, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. Ver. 25. _Jesus called them to...
_And when the ten heard it_ It is likely they overheard the conversation; _they were moved with indignation_ Being not only equally desirous, but in their opinion equally deserving of the principal po...
BUT JESUS CALLED THEM UNTO HIM AND SAID, YE KNOW THAT THE PRINCES OF THE GENTILES EXERCISE DOMINION OVER THEM, AND THEY THAT ARE GREAT EXERCISE AUTHORITY UPON THEM....
A lesson in humility:...
The principle of the first and the last is now illustrated in a most penetrating parable of the kingdom of heaven. The householder goes out early in the morning to hire labourers to work in his vineya...
20-28 The sons of Zebedee abused what Christ said to comfort the disciples. Some cannot have comforts but they turn them to a wrong purpose. Pride is a sin that most easily besets us; it is sinful am...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 20:27"....
Origen Against Celsus Book VII "The princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them,"[43] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II but as a gentle shepherd, "gathering the lambs into thy bosom...
Matthew 20:25 But G1161 Jesus G2424 called G4341 (G5666) them G846 said G2036 (G5627) know G1492 ...
‘But Jesus called them to him, and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them” ' He points out to them that it is th...
THOSE WHO FOLLOW JESUS ARE NOT TO BE SELF-SEEKING BUT SELFLESSLY SEEKING TO SERVE ALL, IN THE SAME WAY AS HE AS THE SERVANT IS DOING AMONG THEM, SOMETHING ESPECIALLY REVEALED IN HIS GIVING OF HIS LIFE...
CHRONOLOGY. The final journey to Jerusalem begins. The approach of His death calls for a third prediction to the Twelve, more specific in its details. The _crucifixion_ is mentioned only in Matthew's...
Matthew 20:25. THE RULERS OF THE GENTILES, _i.e. ‘_ secular princes.' The Jewish form of government, as ordained by God, was designed to exclude tyranny. EXERCISE LORDSHIP, lord it, OVER THEM, _i.e....
CALLED THEM UNTO HIM (προσκαλεσαμενος αυτους). Indirect middle again, calling to him....
Matthew 20:1. _For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers f...
CONTENTS: Parables of laborers in the vineyard. Jesus' death and resurrection again foretold. Ambitious requests of James and John. Healing of the two blind men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, wife of Zebedee, J...
Matthew 20:1. _A householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers_ for the work of his vineyard, the time, the most important time of the vintage being understood. It was the custom...
_Then came to Him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons._ NEAREST TO CHRIST Christ does not put aside the granting of places at His right and left hand as not being within His province, but...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT SERVING OTHERS MATTHEW 20:20-28; MARK 10:35-45; MATTHEW 20:20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [_him_], and desiring a certain thing of...
CHAPTER 20 _The kingdom of heaven is like._ That is, God acts in the kingdom of Heaven like a master hiring labourers into his vineyard; for strictly speaking, the kingdom of Heaven is not like the h...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 20:17. JESUS GOING UP TO JERUSALEM.—The narrative is not continuous, and in the interval between Matthew 20:16 we may probably place our Lord’s “abode beyond Jordan” (John 10:...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 20:1 _Parable of the labourers in the vineyard_._ _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) MATTHEW 20:1 FOR. The following parable is intended to illustrate the apophthegm at the end of the...
Shall we turn to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty, and continue our book-by-book study through the Word of God? Matthew chapter twenty opens with the parable of the laborers going out into the vineyard...
Daniel 2:12; Daniel 2:13; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 3:15; Daniel 3:19;...
Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them — And hence you imagine, the chief in my kingdom will do as they: but it will be quite otherwise....