Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 20:29
(6) And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
(6) Christ by healing these blind men with only one touch, shows that he is the only light of the world.
(6) And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
(6) Christ by healing these blind men with only one touch, shows that he is the only light of the world.
See Mark 10:46, and Luke 18:35; Luke 19:1, where this account of his restoring to sight two blind men is also recorded. “And as they departed from Jericho.” This was a large town about eight miles wes...
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...
TWO BLIND MEN HEALED (Mark 10:46 *, Luke 18:35). Mt. gives Bartimæ us (?) a companion (he is fond of doubling, _cf, Matthew 8:28_, Matthew 9:27).
THE MASTER SEEKS HIS WORKERS (Matthew 20:1-16)...
When they were leaving Jericho, a great crowd followed him. And, look you, two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted out, "Lord, have pit...
DEPARTED. not approaching, as in Luke 18:35. or arriving and leaving, as in Mark 10:46. GREAT MULTITUDE. The population was about 100,000, doubtless with many blind about the gates....
Two Men cured of Blindness Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43. There are remarkable divergences in the Synoptic accounts of this miracle. Some indeed have supposed that different miracles are related by t...
_a great multitude_ The caravan of Galilæans and others going up to Jerusalem for the Passover. Their numbers would protect them from attack in the dangerous mountain defiles leading to the capital. _...
TWO MEN CURED OF BLINDNESS Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43 There are remarkable divergences in the Synoptic accounts of this miracle. Some indeed have supposed that different miracles are related by the...
ὌΧΛΟΣ ΠΟΛΎΣ. The caravan of Galilæans and others going up to Jerusalem for the Passover. Their numbers would protect them from attack in the dangerous mountain defiles leading to the capital. Jericho...
Ver 29. And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. [p. 698] 30. And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, "Ha...
_AT THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY IS COMPASSION MATTHEW 20:29-34:_ As Jesus left Jericho he was met by two blind men. These men, like many that are blind, had sharp ears. They had learned that Jesus was p...
ΈΚΠΟΡΕΥΟΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΈΚΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G1607) выходить, уходить; _gen. abs._ ΉΚΟΛΟΎΘΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ (G190) следовать (с _dat._)....
AND AS THEY DEPARTED, &C.— St. Luke says, that the blind man was cured as our Lord _drew nigh to Jericho,_ Luke 18:35 and before he passed through the town, ch. Matthew 19:1. The other Evangelists say...
Section 53 JESUS HEALS TWO BLIND MEN AT JERICHO (Parallels: Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43) TEXT: 20:29-34 29 And as they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. 30 And behold, two blin...
And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 18:35....
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 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...
TWO BLIND MEN AT JERICHO (Mark 10:46; Luke 18:35). Two apparent discrepancies call for notice: (1) St. Mark and St. Luke mention only one blind man; (2) St. Luke says that the map was healed as Jesus...
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...
AS THEY DEPARTED FROM JERICHO. — Looking back to Matthew 19:1, which speaks of our Lord having departed “beyond Jordan,” we may believe that He crossed the river with His disciples at the ford near Je...
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...
_Blind men_ (man) _at Jericho_ (Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43). The harmonistic problems as to the locality of this incident (leaving Jericho, Mt. and Mk.; entering, Lk.) and the number of persons heal...
ἀπὸ Ἰεριχὼ, from Jericho, an important town every way; “the key the ‘ _Chiavenna_ ' of Palestine to any invader from this quarter” (Stanley, _Sinai and Palestine_, p. 305; the whole account there give...
THE GREAT HEALER AND THE LOWLY KING Matthew 20:29-34; Matthew 21:1-7 The Lord is always saying: _What will ye that I shall do?_ Let us not ask small things. We honor Him by making great demands. Our...
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...
THE BLIND MEN AT JERICHO Matthew 20:29-34; Luke 18:35-43; Mark 10:46-52. “And they are coming into Jericho. And He and His disciples and a great multitude going out from Jericho, blind Bartimeus, the...
"And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. (30) And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us,...
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...
_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...
Matthew 20:29._And while they were departing from Jericho. Osiander _has resolved to display his ingenuity by making four blind men out of one. But nothing can be more frivolous than this supposition....
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...
AND AS THEY DEPARTED FROM JERICHO,.... Which, was distant about ten parsas, or miles, from Jerusalem i, through which Christ just passed, and had met with Zacchaeus, and called him, and delivered the...
And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. Ver. 29. _And as they departed from Jericho_] Christ cured one blind man as he went into Jericho, Luke 18:35,43, and two as he went...
_And as they departed from Jericho As he went out of Jericho with his disciples:_ (Mark,) _behold two blind men_ Mark and Luke mention only one of them, _blind Bartimeus_, who, it seems, was far the m...
JERICHO; a city about eight miles west of the Jordan, and twenty north-east of Jerusalem....
AND AS THEY DEPARTED FROM JERICHO, A GREAT MULTITUDE FOLLOWED HIM....
HEALING OF TWO BLIND MEN. Matthew 20:29 The cry:...
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...
29-34 It is good for those under the same trial, or infirmity of body or mind, to join in prayer to God for relief, that they may quicken and encourage one another. There is mercy enough in Christ fo...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 20:34"....
Matthew 20:29 Now G2532 they G846 out G1607 (G5740) of G575 Jericho G2410 great G4183 multitude G3793 followed...
‘And as they went out from Jericho, a great crowd followed him.' ‘As they went out from Jericho.' In other words, ‘next stop Jerusalem', after climbing a thousand metres (three thousand feet) up the w...
AMONG THE PILGRIMS ON THE JERICHO ROAD LEADING TO JERUSALEM BLIND MEN DECLARE HIM TO BE THE SON OF DAVID PREPARATORY TO HIS TRIUMPHAL ENTRY (20:29-34). As we have already seen, Matthew's Gospel opened...
Matthew 20:29. AND AT THEY WENT OUT OF JERICHO. Comp. Mark 10:46; Luke 18:35. Probably after the conversation just mentioned our Lora entered Jericho, and meeting a multitude there passed out of the c...
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...
FROM JERICHO (απο Ιερειχω). So Mark 10:46. But Luke (Luke 18:35) places the incident as they were drawing near to Jericho (εις Ιερειχω). It is probable that Mark and Matthew refer to the old Jericho...
Matthew 20:29. _And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have merc...
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...
A LARGE CROWD FOLLOWED JESUS. Mark's gospel explains the seeming contradiction between Luke and Matthew. Jesus was ahead of the crowd; went on into Jericho; the noise of the crowd disturbed the blind...
_And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by._ JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSING BY The time of this transaction was critical. He never was to come that way again...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 20:29 JERICHO. Not the ancient OT city (Joshua 5:1), but the new Jericho, about a mile (1.6 km) to the south of the older city. Matthew says the healing
JESUS HEALS A BLIND BEGGAR MATTHEW 20:29-34; MARK 10:46-52; LUKE 18:35-43; MATTHEW 20:29 And as they departed from Jericho,
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 20:29. JERICHO.—See p. 480. Matthew 20:30. TWO BLIND MEN.—Here occurs one of the most marked of the apparent discrepancies of the Gospels. According to Matthew, Jesus healed...
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...
Luke 18:35; Mark 10:46...
Mark 10:46; Luke 18:35....
(CF. MARK 10:46-52; LUKE 18:35-43)— Did Jesus heal two blind men orjust one? PROBLEM: Matthew says that Christ healed two men, but Mark refers to only one man being healed (10:46). This appears to be...
This chapter concludes with. famous miracle, wrought by Christ upon two blind men, in the sight of. great multitude which followed him. Where observe, 1. The blind men's faith in acknowledging Jesus...