What does Matthew 11:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And saying,We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented."
MATTHEW 11:17 evqrhnh,samen {B} After repeated discussion the Committee decided that copyists were more likely to insert u`mi/n for the sake of parallelism with the preceding strophe than to delete...
Verse Matthew 11:17. _WE HAVE PIPED UNTO YOU, AND YE HAVE NOT DANCED_] We have begun the music, which should have been followed by the dance, but ye have not attended to it. _WE HAVE MOURNED - AND Y...
BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN ... - Christ proceeds to reprove the inconsistency and fickleness of that age of people. He says they were like children - nothing pleased them. He refers here to the “play...
8. THE FORERUNNER IN PRISON. THE KINGDOM PREACHING REJECTED. CHAPTER 11 _ 1. John Imprisoned Sends his Disciples. (Matthew 11:1 .) 2. The King's Testimony Concerning John. (Matthew 11:7 .) 3. The Ki...
JOHN THE BAPTIST (Luke 7:18). In place of Mk.'s narrative of John, deferred to ch. 14, Mt. gives material from Q. MATTHEW 11:2. JOHN'S PERPLEXITY. It is a question whether doubt was supervening upon...
THE SIX ACCENTS IN THE VOICE OF JESUS (Matthew 11:1-30) Matthew 11:1-30 is a chapter in which Jesus is speaking all the time; and, as he speaks to different people and about different things, we hear...
HAVE NOT. did not. danced... lamented. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6) in the Greek _orchesasthe... ekopsasthe_. but Figure of speech _Parechesis,_ also in Ararnaic. _rakkedton... arkkedton._ I...
CONCERNING JOHN THE BAPTIST His message to Jesus 2–6. His position as a Prophet 7–14. His relation to Jesus and to his contemporaries 15–19. St Luke 7:18-35...
VER 16. "BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN THIS GENERATION? IT IS LIKE UNTO CHILDREN SITTING IN THE MARKETS, AND CALLING UNTO THEIR FELLOWS, 17. AND SAYING, WE HAVE PIPED UNTO YOU, AND YE HAVE NOT DANCED; W...
_A MOST UNUSUAL MAN MATTHEW 11:7-19:_ John was one of God's greatest servants. Jesus used this occasion to say some things concerning his character and ministry. He gave His approval to the good work...
ΗΎΛΉΣΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΎΛΈΩ (G832) играть на флейте, ΏΡΧΉΣΑΣΘΕ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΌΡΧΈΟΜΑΙ (G3738) танцевать. ΈΘΡΗΝΉΣΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΘΡΗΝΈΩ (G2354) плакать, рыдать, ΈΚΌΨΑΣΘΕ...
BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN, &C.— For the better understanding of our Saviour in this place, see Luke 7:29. To shew the Pharisees more plainly the perverseness of their disposition, our Saviour told t...
SECTION 24 JESUS RECEIVES A QUESTION FROM JOHN AND PREACHES A SERMON ON JOHN (Parallel: Luke 7:18-35) TEXT: 11:2-19 2. Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his di...
_AND SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME, OR DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
7 Compare Luk_7:24-30. 7 The Lord might well have spoken disparagingly of John at this juncture. Instead, He gives him a eulogy which places him on the highest pinnacle of human fame. He gives him a...
THE DISCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST 1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started on their mission about five weeks before the second Passover of the ministry (28 a.d.) and were away...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JOHN THE *BAPTIST ASKED A QUESTION 11:1-6 V1 Jesus finished giving instructions to his 12 *disciples. Then he went on from there...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
_Judgment of Jesus on His religious contemporaries_ (Luke 7:31-35). It is advisable not to assume as a matter of course that these words were spoken at the same time as those going before. The discour...
THE LAST OF THE PROPHETS Matthew 11:11 The least in a higher dispensation has great advantages over the greatest in a lower one. A child on a hill can see farther than a giant in the valley. Many ha...
This picture of John is very full of pathos-from the high triumph of inspired preaching to the solitude and loneliness of a prison. John made as direct application to Jesus as his circumstances permit...
We have piped. Christ, says, St. Jerome on this place, was represented by the children that piped, or played on pipes, and St. John by those that mourned; because Christ refused not upon occasions, to...
SANCTIFICATION DOUBLY METAPHORIZED _ “But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like unto little children, sitting in the forums, and calling to their comrades, and saying, We have piped unto y...
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...
_THE PORTRAIT OF AN AGE_ ‘Whereunto shall I liken this generation?… Wisdom is justified of her children?’ Matthew 11:16 The portrait of an age—that and nothing less is what is essayed in these sent...
From that hour we find the definitive judgment of the nation, not indeed as yet openly declared (that is in chapter 12), nor by the cessation of Christ's ministry, which wrought, notwithstanding the o...
AND SAYING, WE HAVE PIPED UNTO YOU, AND YE HAVE NOT DANCED,.... The allusion is to Jewish children, who having seen their parents and friends at their festivals and weddings, some play upon the pipe,...
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Ver. 17. _We have piped unto you, &c._] It is probable that children in those days were...
_Whereunto shall I liken this generation_ That is, the men of this age? They are like those froward children, of whom their fellows complain that they will be pleased no way. _Saying, We have piped un...
PIPED UNTO YOU; played a lively tune, as at a wedding-feast. MOURNED UNTO YOU; played a mournful tune, as at a funeral. LAMENTED; imitated the lamentations at funerals that accompanied the playing o...
An earnest censure for the Jews:...
Throughout Israel now the Lord carries on an intensive teaching and preaching in their cities. John the Baptist hears of this in the prison, but he is deeply puzzled, for he sends two of his disciples...
16-24 Christ reflects on the scribes and Pharisees, who had a proud conceit of themselves. He likens their behaviour to children's play, who being out of temper without reason, quarrel with all the a...
Ver. 16,17. Luke, telling to us the same history, LUKE 7:31, prefaces it thus, LUKE 7:29,30, _And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of Jo...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X And up to this point I think that the movements of the people of the Jews, which seem to be according to the law, were nothing else than the movements of the daugh...
Matthew 11:17 and G2532 saying G3004 (G5723) flute G832 (G5656) you G5213 And G2532 not G3756 dance G3738 (G5662) mourned G2354 (G5656) you G5213 And G2532 did G2875 not G3756 lament G2875 (G5668) We...
JESUS CHARGES THE PEOPLE OF HIS GENERATION WITH NOT TAKING JOHN'S OR HIS MESSAGE SERIOUSLY, BUT BEHAVING LIKE CHILDREN AT PLAY (11:16-19). The sudden change of subject here is very vivid. He has been...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The sending out of the Twelve probably called into open manifestation the opposition of the Pharisees: hence Matthew groups the events indicating this hostility, without regard to c...
CHILDREN SITTING IN THE MARKET PLACES (παιδιοις καθημενοις εν ταις αγοραις). This parable of the children playing in the market place is given also in Luke 7:31. Had Jesus as a child in Nazareth not...
Matthew 11:16 The Baptist and Christ. I. When John appeared to Israel, and made his voice heard from the wilderness, the stern reality of such a life struck all imaginations; the hope he held out of...
Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities._ Whatever he commanded, he himself did. H...
CONTENTS: Answer to questions sent Jesus by John the Baptist. Judgment predicted as result of rejection of Christ. Rest for individuals who put their trust in Him. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist...
Matthew 11:3. _Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another._ Brevity here is connected with obscurity. John could not doubt, after seeing the glory, and hearing the voice from heaven. The...
WE PLAYED WEDDING MUSIC. A mock wedding, then a mock funeral, but the children were not happy with either, and would neither dance nor cry. Nothing could please them....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:1 Opposition to the Messiah Increases. There has been occasional resistance to Jesus’ ministry (e.g., Matthew 9:3). It now begins to increase significantly, as seen first in...
JESUS EASES JOHN'S DOUBT MATTHEW 11:2-19; LUKE 7:19-35; MATTHEW 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, Luke 7:19 And John calling [_unto him_] tw...
CHAPTER 11 _And it came to pass_, &c. _He passed from thence_ : That means, He separated Himself from His Apostles, whom He sent to preach the Gospel by themselves, both that they might prepare the w...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 11:19. WISDOM.—God regarded as the All-Wise. JUSTIFIED.—Acquitted of folly. CHILDREN.—The Divinely wise. The spiritual recognise the wisdom of God both in the austerity of Jo...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 11:1 Matthew only. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END. The same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28; Matthew 13:53; Matthew 19:1; Matthew 26:1. In all five cases it marks...
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of these commandments, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities (Matthew 11:1). So He sent them out in front of them, and then He...
1 Corinthians 9:19; 1 Kings 1:40; Isaiah 28:9; Isaiah 30:29; Jeremiah 31:4; Jeremiah 9:17; Luke 15:25; Matthew 9:15; Matthew 9:23...
Mourn [ε κ ο ψ α σ θ ε]. Lit., beat or strike (the beast), as in oriental funeral lamentations....