Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Matthew 18:13
Verse Matthew 18:13. He rejoiceth more] It is justly observed by one, on this verse, that it is natural for a person to express unusual joy at the fortunate accomplishment of an unexpected event.
Verse Matthew 18:13. He rejoiceth more] It is justly observed by one, on this verse, that it is natural for a person to express unusual joy at the fortunate accomplishment of an unexpected event.
To show still further the reason why we should not despise Christians, he introduced a parable showing the joy felt when a thing lost is found. A shepherd rejoices over the recovery of one of his floc...
6. INSTRUCTIONS TO HIS DISCIPLES. CONCERNING FORGIVENESS. CHAPTER 18 1. Concerning the Little Ones and Offences. (Matthew 18:1 .) 2. The Son of Man to Save What is Lost. (Matthew 18:11 .) 3. The Chu...
A CONVERSATION WITH THE TWELVE. For Matthew 18:1, the question of precedence, _cf._ Mark 9:33 *, also Matthew 20:26 f., Mark 10:43 f.,...
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS (Matthew 18:1-35) Matthew 18:1-35 is a most important chapter for Christian Ethics, because it deals with those qualities which should characterize the personal relationships o...
"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine, and go out to the hills, and will he not seek the wandering one? And if he finds it--...
VERILY. See note on Matthew 5:18. OF. over. Greek. _epi._ App-104. THAT SHEEP. it....
_of that sheep_ Rather, OVER that sheep....
Christ's care for His Little Ones illustrated by a Parable. Luke 15:3-7 After a brief digression (Matthew 18:7), Christ's love for His young disciples again breaks out in words. Let no one despise th...
CHRIST’S CARE FOR HIS LITTLE ONES ILLUSTRATED BY A PARABLE Luke 15:3-7. After a brief digression (Matthew 18:7-9), Christ’s love for His young disciples again breaks out in words. Let no one despise...
Ver 10. "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 11. For the Son of man is co...
_THE HEART OF A CHRISTIAN IS CHARACTERIZED BY CONCERN FOR OTHERS MATTHEW 18:10-14:_ God is concerned about the individual. Christians should share that concern. "Even so it is not the will of your Fat...
ΕΎΡΕΊΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить. _Inf._ используется с гл.: "если ему доведется найти" (BD, 201). ΧΑΊΡΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΧΑΊΡΩ (G5463) ликовать, радоваться. _Praes._ подчерк...
Section 46 JESUS TRAINS THE TWELVE IN PERSONAL RELATIONS (Parallels: Mark 9:33-50; Luke 9:46-50) TEXT: 18:1-35 A. Humility and True Greatness 1 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Wh...
B. THE GOOD SHEPHERD CAME TO SEEK THE LOST LITTLE ONES. (18:11-13) Matthew 18:11 is omitted in the better manuscripts, because Matthew probably did not write it. The owner of a manuscript copy rightly...
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? HOW THINK Y...
24 See Exo_30:11-16; Exo_38:25-26. 24 According to the law every one who was numbered in Israel, being over twenty years of age, paid half a shekel to shelter his soul (Exo_30:12-14). It was used for...
PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP, 'which is intended to show that it would be in direct opposition to God's desire for human salvation to lead astray one of those little ones, and to cause him to be lost, li...
OFFENDING THE LITTLE ONES. THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT 1-14. Ambition reproved, and humility taught by the example of a little child (Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 18 Chapter 18 is the fourth section of what Jesus taught. It ends in the same way as the other sections ‘Now when Jesus had finished...
REJOICETH MORE OF THAT SHEEP. — More literally, _over it. _...
καὶ … αὐτό : if it _happen_ that he finds it. In Lk. he searches till he finds it. ἀμὴν λέγω : specially solemn, with a view to the application to the moral sphere of what in the natural sphere is sel...
_Parable of straying sheep_ (Luke 15:4-7); may seem less appropriate here than in Lk., but has even here a good setting, amounting to a climax = God cares not only for the lowly and little but even fo...
Still the subject is the child as the ideal representative of the insignificant, apt to be despised by the ambitious. From this point onwards Mt. goes pretty much his own way, giving _logia_ of Jesus...
_Ambition rebuked_ (Mark 9:33-50; Luke 9:46-50; Luke 15:3-7; Luke 17:1-4)....
SAVING THE STRAYING Matthew 18:10-20 How tenderly the Master speaks of the children! We must turn back to become like them, Matthew 18:3. To cause them to stumble is to incur terrible penalties, Mat...
What a sad state of heart prompted this question! How absolutely opposed to the whole genius of the Master's teaching and example! He replied by an act, and a statement growing out of that act. The ch...
"Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! (8) Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and c...
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...
In chapter 18 the great principles proper to the new order of things are made known to the disciples. Let us search a little into these sweet and precious instructions of the Lord. They may be looked...
AND IF SO BE THAT HE FIND IT,.... Which is a casual and uncertain thing with the shepherd, but not so with Christ, who certainly finds all those he goes after, and seeks: for, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU,...
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that _sheep_, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Ver. 13. _And if so be that he find it_] As he will most sur...
_How think_ ye What do you think would be the conduct of a faithful shepherd? _If a man have a hundred sheep, and_ but _one of them_ wander from the rest, _and go astray, doth he not leave the ninety...
REJOICETH MORE; this was natural. So with God. He rejoices in the salvation of the wandering and exposed. Of course, all should labor for this end. One way in which they could do it, he proceeded to p...
Though the Lord Jesus has been seen to forego His own rights, He who is by right infinitely great, the disciples show the opposite attitude in desiring some rights above those of others in the kingdom...
7-14 Considering the cunning and malice of Satan, and the weakness and depravity of men's hearts, it is not possible but that there should be offences. God permits them for wise and holy ends, that t...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 18:14"....
Matthew 18:13 And G2532 if G1437 G1096 (G5638) find G2147 (G5629) it G846 assuredly G281 say...
THE LITTLE ONES ARE SO IMPORTANT TO GOD THAT IF ONE GOES ASTRAY HE SEEKS THEM UNTIL HE FINDS THEM (18:11-14). Jesus here uses the idea of the shepherd seeking his sheep, which was something that happe...
“And if so be that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.” The ‘if so be' is a warning against presumption, but Matthew 18:...
The whole chapter forms one discourse, delivered upon one occasion, after the return to Capernaum, probably immediately succeeding the miracle just mentioned. Two distinct topics are spoken of: the _f...
Matthew 18:13. THE NINETY AND NINE WHICH HAVE NOT GONE ASTRAY. Either the unfallen beings in other worlds, whom Christ in a certain sense left, to save the ‘one' in this lost world, or those who think...
Matthew 18:10 Think of His words, and you will see, first, that Jesus isolates each of us, setting us one by one apart: "despise not _one;_" He is come to save that one; "if one of them be gone astray...
Matthew 18:1. _At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The question we have sometimes heard asked in other forms, «Which is the highest...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the child text. Discipline in the church. Unity in prayer. Law of forgiveness. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter. CONCLUSION: Those are truly great who are truly humble and good, and...
Matthew 18:1. _Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?_ The comparative μειζων _greater,_ is put here for the superlative. By the kingdom of heaven, they meant the worldly glory of the church in...
WHAT DO YOU THINK? This parable is to show how God feels about these "little ones" which the Jews despise. The shepherd takes time to look for the sheep that is lost. Jesus is the "Good Shepherd....
_If a man have an hundred sheep._ SEEKING THE LOST 1. The image under which it pleases God to describe His creatures upon earth, “Sheep” “gone astray.” 2. What is said as to the dealings of God wit...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 18:1 The Community of the Messiah Revealed. This is the fourth of Jesus’ five major teachings in Matthew’s Gospel (see Introduction: Key Themes). Jesus instructs his disciples...
1-35 CHAPTER 18 _At that time came_, &c. There seems to be a discrepancy here with Mark 9:31, where it is said that the disciples disputed about this matter in the way, and that afterwards, when they...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 18:5. ONE SUCH LITTLE CHILD.—Whether literally or only morally a little child. Our Saviour had reference, we doubt not, to both phases of childhood. That He refers to literal...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 18:1 _Discourse concerning the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and the mutual duties of Christians_._ _(Mark 9:33; Luke 9:46-42.)...
Now at the same time there came disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (Matthew 18:1) Oh, boy how they longed for this. You're talking about motivation, and the disc...
Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 62:5; James 2:13; Jeremiah 32:37; John 4:34;...
If so be [ε α ν γ ε ν η τ α ι]. If it should so come to pass. God's grace is not irresistible....