Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Matthew 9:38
The Lord of the harvest — i.e., the Father who had sent Him to be the Sower of the divine seed, and who, through Him, was about to send forth the labourers.
The Lord of the harvest — i.e., the Father who had sent Him to be the Sower of the divine seed, and who, through Him, was about to send forth the labourers.
Verse Matthew 9:38. _THAT HE WILL SEND FORTH LABOURERS_] οπως εκβαλλη εργατας, _that he would thrust forth labourers_. Those who are fittest for the work are generally most backward to the employment...
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...
PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST. The Lord of the harvest is Christ. When we pray the Lord for anything we must work to fulfill our own prayers. If we pray for laborers we must be willing to...
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...
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...
PRAY. Greek. _deornai._ App-134. POWER. authority. See App-172. AGAINST. over. Greek Genitive of Relation. App-17. SPIRITS. Plural of Greek. _pneuma._ See App-101. TO. so as to. ALL MANNER OF. ev...
_send forth_ The original word is more forcible, implying a strong impulse; it is used Mark 1:12. "The spirit _driveth_him into the wilderness;" and frequently of casting out evil spirits, also of cas...
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...
ὍΠΩΣ ἘΚΒΆΛΗΙ. The verb ἐκβάλλειν, to thrust forth, send out, denotes the enthusiastic impulse of mission work: cp. Mark 1:12, τὸ πνεῦμα ἐκβάλλει αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν ἔρημον—driveth him like a wind; and Matth...
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....
ΔΕΉΘΗΤΕ _aor. imper. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΈΟΜΑΙ (G1189) просить, молить. С _gen._ ΤΟΎ ΚΥΡΊΟΥ ΤΟΎ ΘΕΡΙΣΜΟΎ "Господин жатвы" — это тот, кто нанимает работников и посылает их в поле (Gundry). Он изображен к...
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...
THAT HE WILL SEND FORTH— The original word εκβαλη plainly imports some degree of force. Dr. Doddridge therefore very properly translates and paraphrases the passage thus: _Therefore_ let me urge you t...
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...
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST - the great Lord and Proprietor of all. Compare John 15:1 -...
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...
9:38 that (c-8) See Note, ch. 8.34....
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...
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...
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will (i) send forth labourers into his harvest. (i) Literally, "cast them out": for men are very slow in a work so holy....
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...
38._Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest _As no man will of himself become a sincere and faithful minister of the gospel, and as none discharge in a proper manner the office of teacher but those...
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...
PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST,.... By "the Lord of the harvest" is either meant God the Father, whose are all the elect, who has a hearty concern for them, and will have them all gathered...
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Ver. 38. _Labourers into his harvest_] Harvestmen, of all others, have the hardest labour, a sore sweati...
_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...
LORD OF THE HARVEST; the great, divine teacher. SEND FORTH; prepare and incline many to go and preach the gospel....
Christ's compassion:...
PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST THAT HE WILL SEND FORTH LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST. Christ's ministry brought Him into the most intimate touch with the people, gave Him the clearest insight i...
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...
OLBGrk; Ver. 37,38. The plain sense of these two verses is this: John the Baptist and Christ had now been preaching for some time, God inclined the hearts of great multitudes to follow both the one an...
Matthew 9:38 Therefore G3767 pray G1189 (G5676) Lord G2962 harvest G2326 to G3704 out G1544 (G5632) laborers...
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 9:38. BESEECH YE. A strong word. THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, _i.e.,_ God. The harvest included the Gentile nations, for the laborers sent forth at this time afterwards preached to them also. T...
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...
THAT HE SEND FORTH LABOURERS (οπως εκβαλη εργατας). Jesus turns from the figure of the shepherdless sheep to the harvest field ripe and ready for the reapers. The verb εκβαλλω really means to drive...
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...
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 9:1. _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...
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 9:36. _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...
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...
PRAY TO THE OWNER. The owner is Christ. To pray for "workers" is to make yourself a worker also. When we pray to the Lord for anything, we must be willing to do our part to make it come true....
_Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest._ THE SPIRITUAL HARVEST-FIELD 1. How closely connected the spiritual commission of the apostles was with deep sympathy for the physical wants of humanity....
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 12:28; 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Acts 13:2; Acts 8:4;...
Send forth [ε κ β α λ η]. So A. V. and Rev. But the word is stronger : thrust out, force them out, as from urgent necessity....
The Lord of the harvest — Whose peculiar work and office it is, and who alone is able to do it: that he would thrust forth — for it is an employ not pleasing to flesh and blood; so full of reproach, l...