Matthew 13:57. And they were offended in him, made to stumble. They were led into error and sin with regard to Him.
A prophet is not without honor, etc. The rejection is accounted for by a proverbial expression, verified by human experience. ‘Familiarity breeds contempt,' ‘Distance lends enchantment to the view,' are still more general expressions of the same principle.
Verse Matthew 13:57. _AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM._] They took offence at him, εσκανδαλιζοντο εν αυτω, making the meanness of his family the reason why they would not receive him as a prophet, thou...
AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM - That is, they took offence at his humble birth, and at the indigent circumstances of his family. They were too proud to be taught by one who, in family connections, the...
II. THE REJECTED KINGDOM AND THE REJECTED KING. CHAPTER S 13-28. 1. The King at the Seaside. The Mysteries of the Kingdom. CHAPTER 13 1. The King at the Seaside. (Matthew 13:1 .) 2. The Parable of...
JESUS REJECTED AT NAZARETH (Mark 6:1 *, _cf._ Luke 4:16). Mt. has already used Mark 4:35 and Matthew 5. Perhaps the original reading in Matthew 13:55 is ne
When Jesus had concluded these parables, he left there. He went into his native place and he taught them in their synagogue. His teaching was such that they were astonished and said, "Where did this m...
OFFENDED. stumbled. IN. at. Greek. _en_. HIS OWN HOUSE. His own family: "house" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the family dwelling within it....
The Prophet in his own Country. Mark 6:1-6 where the incident is placed between the cure of Jairus" daughter and the mission of the Twelve, Luke 4:16-30, where our Lord's discourse in the synagogue i...
THE PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY Mark 6:1-6; Luke 4:16-30 In Mark the incident is placed between the cure of Jairus’ daughter and the mission of the Twelve; in Luke our Lord’s discourse in the synagogu...
Ver 53. And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. 54. And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were...
_THE PARABLE OF THE DRAGNET MATTHEW 13:47-58:_ The dragnet was a common way of fishing in Jesus' day and is still used today. The dragnet took in all kinds of fish. Just so, the gospel net brings all...
ΈΣΚΑΝΔΑΛΊΖΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΣΚΑΝΔΑΛΊΖΩ (G4624), _pass._ отвратиться, антоним выражения "поверить в него" они отказывались верить в Него, ΆΤΙΜΟΣ (G820) без чести....
AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM— The Nazarenes, not being able to reconcile the miracles, and wisdom of our Lord with the meanness of his birth, were full of doubts and uncertainties; they could not tel...
Section 32 JESUS IS REFUSED BY HIS OWN AT NAZARETH. TEXT: 13:54-58 (Parallel: Mark 6:1-6) 54 And coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, a...
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM. BUT JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, A...
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)...
13:57 offended (c-4) Or 'were stumbled at him,' but the word 'stumbled' is too weak. The root word in Greek, _ skandalon_ , is literally 'the catch of a trap,' that makes it fall when touched. It is g...
WERE OFFENDED] lit. 'were caused to stumble,' i.e. were hindered from believing. A PROPHET] see on Luke 4:24; John 4:44....
A DAY OF PARABLES 1-3a. Teaching by parables begun (Mark 4:1; Luke 8:4). This chapter introduces a new type of teaching, that by parables. St. Matthew gives us a group of seven, the first four of whic...
SECOND VISIT TO NAZARETH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD (Mark 6:1). The first is described Luke 4:16, where He received similar treatment and used the same proverb....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 STORIES ABOUT WHERE GOD RULES 13:1-52 Matthew wrote down a lot of the things that Jesus taught. This chapter is the third section...
THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM. — The word is used in the same sense as in Matthew 11:6. They could not reconcile the new wisdom and the claim which the teaching implied with the obscurity and commonness o...
CHAPTER 11 The Parables of the Kingdom - Matthew 13:1 "THE same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side." We can well imagine that, after such a series of discouragements and mortifi...
_Visit to Nazareth_ (Mark 6:1-6, _cf._ Luke 4:16-30). In Mk. this is the next section after the parables, deducting what had previously been reported in Mt. (chaps. 8 and 9), a pretty sure sign that o...
roverb, not Jewish merely, but common property of mankind; examples from Greek and Roman authors in Pricaeus and Wetstein, including one from Pindar about fame fading at the family hearth (Olymp. Ode,...
HOW UNBELIEF HINDERS Matthew 13:51-58 God's truth is always new and always old. It is as fresh as the morning breeze for each coming generation. But however stated, the fundamental facts are invaria...
This chapter contains the seven parables of the Kingdom. The reason for the parabolic teaching of Christ is set forth here. This first parable was spoken to the multitudes (verses Mat 13:2-3). Its exp...
CHAPTER 27 THE LEAVEN Matthew 13:33. _“He spake another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like unto leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, until all were leav...
CHAPTER 30 JESUS AGAIN REJECTED AT NAZARETH Matthew 13:54-58, & Mark 6:1-6. “He went out from thence, and came into His own country [i.e., He went from Capernaum to Nazareth]; and His disciples follo...
"And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. (54) And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astoni...
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...
57._A prophet is not devoid of honor. _I have explained this statement at considerable length, where it occurs in the Gospel of John, (348) (John 4:44.) It may, no doubt, be a general proverb, that th...
The Lord was no longer seeking fruit in His vine. It had been requisite according to God's relations with Israel that He should seek this fruit; but His true service, He well knew, was to bring that w...
AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM,.... It was a stumbling to them, how he came by his wisdom and power; since he had not these things from men of learning, and could not have them from his relatives: and...
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. Ver. 57. _A prophet is not without honour, &c._] This was an o...
_Whence then hath this man all these things?_ “This, like many other things that have since been objected against the gospel of Christ, is as much the language of stupidity as of infidelity; for the m...
OFFENDED; at his humble birth and indigent circumstances. They were too proud to receive him as their teacher. IN HIS OWN HOUSE; a man often has less influence with those among whom he spent his chil...
This chapter begins a new division of the book. Israel is looked at as set aside because of unbelief: the Lord went out of the house (typically Israel's house), and set by the seaside. The sea is typi...
53-58 Christ repeats his offer to those who have repulsed them. They upbraid him, Is not this the carpenter's son? Yes, it is true he was reputed to be so; and no disgrace to be the son of an honest...
OLBGrk; Ver. 55-57. Mark saith the same, MARK 6:3; only he saith, _Is not this the carpenter?_ o tektwn; which leadeth some to think that Christ, till he was thirty years of age, wrought with Joseph u...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X " They have not done so, but have named it "His country," because of something being declared in a mystic sense in the passage about His country,-namely, the whole...
Matthew 13:57 So G2532 offended G4624 (G5712) at G1722 Him G846 But G1161 Jesus G2424 said G2036 ...
JESUS IS REJECTED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY (13:54-57). This passage connects back with Matthew 12:46 where Jesus' relationship with His family came second to His relationship with those who did the will of...
‘And they were offended in him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and in his own house.” And the result was that they ‘were offended in Him'. That is...
AND THEY WERE OFFENDED IN HIM (κα εσκανδαλιζοντο εν αυτω). Graphic imperfect passive. Literally, "They stumbled at him," "They were repelled by him" (Moffatt), "They turned against him" (Weymouth)....
Matthew 13:24. _Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:_ Jesus never sowed any other kind of seed. The truth wh...
CONTENTS: Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. The sower, tares and wheat, grain of mustard seed, leaven, hid treasure, pearl, drag net. CHARACTERS: Jesus, disciples, Satan, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The pr...
Matthew 13:2. _He went into a ship._ A small vessel or boat, probably belonging to one of the disciples, several of whom were fishermen. Matthew 13:3. _He spake many things to them in parables._ On th...
AND SO THEY REJECTED HIM. They thought they knew both he and his family. So they rejected his claims without closely studying them. Familiar things often fail to impress us....
THE PEOPLE OF NAZARETH REFUSE TO BELIEVE MATTHEW 13:53-58; MARK 6:1-6; MATTHEW 13:53 And it came to pass, [_that_] when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 13:54. HIS OWN COUNTRY.—The district of Nazareth. Matthew 13:55. THE CARPENTER’S SON (see Mark 6:3).—Joseph was an _artificer_, for the word “carpenter” must not be interpret...
EXPOSITION A few remarks by way of introduction to the characteristic portion of this chapter (Matthew 13:1). (1) We have here a collection of the Lord's parables, all spoken, as it would appear, at...
Now as we enter into the thirteenth chapter, we come into the area of the parables that deal with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. And in these we have more or less a key to all parables. And y...
1 Corinthians 1:23; Acts 3:22; Acts 3:23; Acts 7:37; Acts 7:51;...
They were offended at him — They looked on him as a mean, ignoble man, not worthy to be regarded. John 4:44; Luke 7:23....