Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT
Matthew 21:22
Believing
(πιστευοντες). This is the point of the parable of the mountain, "faith in the efficacy of prayer" (Plummer).
Believing
(πιστευοντες). This is the point of the parable of the mountain, "faith in the efficacy of prayer" (Plummer).
Verse Matthew 21:22. _ALL THINGS - YE SHALL ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING_] In order to get salvation, there must be, 1. a _conviction_ of the want of it: this begets, 2. _prayer_, or _warm desires_, in...
This paragraph contains the account of the barren fig-tree, and of the cleansing of the temple. See also Mark 11:12; Luke 19:45. Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into
9. THE KING ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM. The Parables of the Two Sons and the Householder and His Vineyard. CHAPTER 21 1. The King Enters Jerusalem. (Matthew 21:1 .) 2. The Second Cleansing of the Temple...
THE CURSING OF THE FIG TREE AND THE POWER OF FAITH (Mark 11:12 ff., Mark 11:20 *). What Mk. has severed, Mt. joins together. The miracle is enhanced by happening at once. The special mention of Peter...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
When Jesus was returning to the city early in the morning, he was hungry. When he saw a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it, and found nothing but leaves. He said to it, "Let no fruit come from...
ASK. Greek. _aiteo._ App-134. RECEIVE. Supply the Ellipsis: "[it, if it he His will]", from Matthew 26:39.James 5:14; James 5:15; 1 John 5:1
The Cursing of the Fig-Tree Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-24. St Mark places this incident before the "Cleansing of the Temple," see note Matthew 21:12. 19 _a fig tree_ Rather, A SINGLE FIG-TREE....
THE CURSING OF THE FIG-TREE Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-24. St Mark places this incident before the ‘Cleansing of the Temple,’ see note Matthew 21:12-14. It is an interesting and leading instance of mir...
Ver 17. And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there. 18. Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he ca...
_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS CAUSED A FIG TREE TO WITHER MATTHEW 21:18-22:_ The fig tree is unique in that the fruit and the leaves come at the same time. Mark wrote, "For the fig season had not ye...
ΟΣΑ _acc. pl. n. от_ ΌΣΟΣ (G3745) столь же великий; насколько великий, какой бы ни; используется для того, чтобы придать высказыванию более общий смысл (BAGD). ΑΊΤΉΣΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΑΊΤΈΩ (G1...
DISCOURSE: 1386 THE FIG-TREE CURSED Matthew 21:18. Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but le...
NOW IN THE MORNING, &C.— I shall postpone the remarks on this miracle to Mark 11 as it is there related with some circumstances which require particular notice; observing that our Lord cursed the fig-...
SECTION 56 JESUS CURSES FIG TREE AND TEACHES DISCIPLES FAITH (Parallel: Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:20-25) TEXT: 21:18-22 18 Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered. 19 And seeing a...
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? For the exposition, see Luke 19:1 after 5:44; and the notes at Mark 11:12. Now commences, as Alford remarks, that...
12 His first act as King was to cleanse the temple of idolatry, for covetousness is nothing less (Col_3:5). The temple tax, or double drachma (Mat_17:24) had to be paid by even the poorest of the peop...
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels'). Sabbath, Nisan 8...
CURSING OF THE FIG TREE (Mark 11:12 and Mark 11:20). St. Mark makes it clear that the fig tree was cursed on Monday morning as they left Bethany, but that the effect of the curse was not noticed till...
ALL THINGS] Not all things absolutely, but all things of which the petitioners are worthy. 23-27. Christ's authority to teach challenged (Mark 11:27; Luke 20:1)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM 21:1-11 V1 As they came nearer to Jerusalem, they reached the town called Bethphage. It was on the Mount o...
ALL THINGS, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK IN PRAYER. — Here again there is the implied condition (as in Matthew 7:7) that what is asked is in harmony with the laws and will of God. If it were not so it woul...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
_The barren fig tree_ (Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:19-26). The story of two morning journeys from Bethany to Jerusalem (_vide_ Mk.) is here compressed into one....
FRUITLESSNESS JUDGED AND FAITH REWARDED Matthew 21:18-22 Men have found fault with our Lord for smiting this tree with barrenness. Yet what teacher would not root up a plant, if he desired to teach h...
In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He revea...
THE WITHERING OF THE FIG-TREE Matthew 21:20-22; Mark 11:20-26. _“And early in the morning, they, passing by, saw the fig-tree withered from its roots.”_ The withering was so decisive that even the tru...
"And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there. (18) Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. (19) And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
Afterwards (chapter 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as Kin...
AND ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER,.... Not only miracles, but any other thing which may be for the honour of God, the interest of religion, the spreading of the Gospel, the enlargement of the kingdom, of Chri...
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Ver. 22. _Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing_] Faith is the foundation of prayer, and prayer is the fervency...
_In the morning, as he returned, he hungered_ For, being a man, he was subject to all the innocent infirmities of our nature, and he had come out from Bethany early without eating any thing: _And when...
BELIEVING; with the faith of miracles granted to them, and under the special teaching of the Holy Ghost, by which they could discern whether a thing was or was not according to the will of God. If the...
The lesson of the dry tree:...
AND ALL THINGS, WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING, YE SHALL RECEIVE. On Tuesday morning the attention of the disciples was drawn to the single fig-tree, standing there with its leaves all s...
It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples ar...
18-22 This cursing of the barren fig-tree represents the state of hypocrites in general, and so teaches us that Christ looks for the power of religion in those who profess it, and the savour of it fr...
OLBGrk; Ver. 17-22. Luke hath nothing of this passage, but Mark relates it with some variation and additions: the variation is only as to time, as to which the evangelists were not curious. Matthew re...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III Of faith He says: "Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."[196] Recognitions of Clement IV And therefore it is necessary for yo...
Matthew 21:22 And G2532 whatever G302 G3745 things G3956 ask G154 (G5661) in G1722 prayer G4335 believing...
THE ACTED OUT PARABLE OF THE END OF THE OLD UNBELIEVING ISRAEL (21:18-22). Having made clear by His actions that the old unbelieving Israel in the person of its leaders will not receive Him, Jesus now...
“And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” Jesus then caps off His words by underlining the importance of taking God at His word. His point is that when they are...
Matthew 21:22. AND ALL THINGS, etc. Mark: ‘therefore,' showing that the primary application, so far as miraculous power is concerned, was to the Twelve. As applied to all Christians, it is of course c...
The cleansing of the temple and the cursing of the barren fig tree were closely connected. According to the fuller account of Mark, on the day of His triumphal entry our Lord looked round about the te...
Matthew 21:22 These words are said to us as God's children. This is the one condition of our asking and having. "Ask," our good Lord would say, "your Father as His children, believing in Him, trustin...
CONTENTS: The triumphant entry. Jesus' second purification of the temple. Barren fig tree cursed. Jesus' authority questioned. Parable of the two sons in the vineyard. Parable of the house-holder dema...
Matthew 21:1. _When they were come to Bethphage._ The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of grossiti...
IF YOU BELIEVE! See note on Matthew 17:20. However, belief and prayer cannot be used for selfish purposes....
_And all things whatsoever ye ask in prayer believing._ FAITH IN PRAYER Alexander the Great had a famous but indigent philosopher in his court. This adept in science was once particularly straitened...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:18 Matthew discusses the cursing of the fig tree and the disciples’ reaction together, treating the events topically (compare note on v. Matthew 21:12). The tree was c
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over Jerusalem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), action
JESUS SAYS THE DISCIPLES CAN PRAY FOR ANYTHING MATTHEW 21:20-22; MARK 11:20-26; MATTHEW 21:20 And when the disciples saw [_it_], they marvelled,...
1-46 CHAPTER 21 _And when they were come nigh_, &c. Mark has (Mark 11:1), "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, He sendeth forth two of His discip...
_And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Believing_, i.e., if ye shall believe and be confident that ye shall obtain those things from God, according to James 1:...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 21:18. HE HUNGERED.—His hungering is pretty good evidence that He had not been staying in the house of Martha and Mary. Most likely He had been much with Himself and with His...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 21:1 _Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately...
1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:14; 1 John 5:15; James 5:16; John 14:13;...