Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 21:18
(4) Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
(4) Hypocrites will at length have their masks discovered, and any false faces taken away.
(4) Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
(4) Hypocrites will at length have their masks discovered, and any false faces taken away.
Verse Matthew 21:18. _NOW IN THE MORNING, AS HE RETURNED INTO THE CITY_] Which was his custom from the time he wholly left Jerusalem, spending only the day time teaching in the temple; see Matthew 21:...
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...
IN THE MORNING. early in the morning. See App-97....
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....
ἘΠΕΊΝΑΣΕΝ, late for ἐπείνησεν, the contraction of αε into α instead of η in πεινάω, διψάω and χράω against the Attic rule appears rarely in the later authors, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Plutarch, &c....
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...
ΠΡΩΊ (G4404) рано, ΈΠΑΝΆΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΠΑΝΆΓΩ (G1877) возвращаться. Temp. _part._ со _знач._ одновременного действия. ΈΠΕΊΝΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΙΝΆΩ (G3983) голодать....
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...
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...
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...
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...
IN THE MORNING. — The word implies “daybreak,” probably about 5 A.M. This was the usual Jewish time for the first food of the day. If we may infer from Luke 21:37; John 18:1, that the greater part of...
Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
ἐπείνασε, He felt hungry. The fact seems to favour the hypothesis of a bivouac under the sky overnight. Why should one be hungry leaving the hospitable house of friends? (_vide_ Mk.). This was no diff...
_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...
In the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry. This hunger, though real and pressing, was mysterious, and affords an opportunity of giving instruction both to the Jews and to all his disciple...
THE BARREN FIG-TREE Matthew 21:18-19; Mark 11:12-14. _“And on the following day, they having come out from Bethany, He was hungry.”_ Doubtless He had enjoyed the kind hospitality of Mary, Martha, and...
"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...
18._And returning in the morning. _Between that solemn entrance of Christ, of which we have spoken, and the day of the Passover, he had passed the night in Bethany; and during the day he appeared in t...
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...
NOW IN THE MORNING,.... Greek "in the first", or morning light, in the dawn, or break of day, the first spring of light; so the Latins s use "prima luce" for early in the morning, as soon as ever day...
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. Ver. 18. _As he returned into the city_] There his work lay chiefly; thither therefore he goes early, and had forgotten, for haste, to ta...
_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...
NOW IN THE MORNING, AS HE RETURNED INTO THE CITY, HE HUNGERED....
THE CURSING OF THE FIG-TREE. Matthew 21:17...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:22"....
Matthew 21:18 Now G1161 morning G4405 returned G1877 (G5723) to G1519 city G4172 hungry G3983 (G5656)...
‘Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he felt hungry,' The fact that even while cutting down the story drastically Matthew still mentions Jesus' hunger demonstrates that he intends it to ind...
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...
Matthew 21:18. N OW IN THE MORNING. On Monday morning. To give point to the incident, Matthew, unites the two morning walks from Bethany (on Monday and Tuesday). HE HUNGERED. An actual physical want;...
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...
HE HUNGERED (επεινασεν). Ingressive aorist indicative, became hungry, felt hungry (Moffatt). Possibly Jesus spent the night out of doors and so had no breakfast....
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...
ON HIS WAY BACK TO THE CITY. Having spent the night in Bethany. This is early Monday morning....
_And when he saw a fig-tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon._ THE BARREN FIG-TREE I. The destruction of this tree was not an act of injustice. People find it difficult to unders...
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 CLEARS THE TEMPLE MATTHEW 21:10-19; MARK 11:11-19; LUKE 19:45-48; MATTHEW 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem,
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...
_Now in the morning as He returned into the city, he hungered._ This, therefore, took place on the day after Palm Sunday, on Monday, the eleventh day of Nisan, the first month; which is, according to...
_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...
Hebrews 4:15; Luke 4:2; Mark 11:12; Mark 11:13; Matthew 12:1;...
(CF. MARK 11:12-14; MARK 11:20)— When was the fig tree cursed by Jesus, before or after the temple was cleansed? PROBLEM: Matthew places the cursing of the fig tree after the cleansing of the temple....