What does Matthew 2:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life."
Verse Matthew 2:20. _THEY ARE DEAD_] Both Herod and Antipater his son; though some think the plural is here used for the singular, and that the death of Herod alone is here intended. But as Herod's so...
THEY ARE DEAD WHO SOUGHT ... - This either refers to Herod alone, as is not uncommon, using the plural number for the singular; or it may refer to Herod and his son Antipater. He was of the same cruel...
2. THE KING WORSHIPPED BY GENTILES; Jerusalem in Ignorance of Him; the Child Persecuted. _ 1. The Visit of the Wise Men.(Matthew 2:1 .) 2. The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13 .) 3. The Return from...
THE SETTLEMENT AT NAZARETH. By Herod's will Archelaus (p. 609) held the title of King till the Emperor Augustus forbade it. In Galilee, another of Herod's sons, Antipas (p. 609), was tetrarch. There i...
ARISE... GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. Notice that Joseph is not required to return to Bethlehem or to Judea, but simply to the land of Israel. As he advances upon his journey he will be informed where...
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
THEY. Note the Figure of speech _Heterosis_ (of Number), App-6, by which the plural is put for the singular.: i.e. Herod. LIFE. the soul. Greek. _e psuche._...
The Return from Egypt 20. _they_ Plural by a euphemism, the reference being to Herod alone....
THE RETURN FROM EGYPT...
VER 19. BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARETH IN A DREAM TO JOSEPH IN EGYPT, 20. SAYING, "ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL; FOR...
_THE CHRIST RETURNED OUT OF EGYPT MATTHEW 2:19-23:_ Joseph did just as God said. He stayed in Egypt until he had a word from God._ _ After the death of King Herod Joseph was told to take the child and...
ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ Matthew 2:17. ΠΟΡΕΎΟΥPRAES. _imper. med. (dep.), см._ Matthew 2:8. ΤΕΘΝΉΚΑΣΙΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G2374) умирать; perf. быть мертвым, ΓΆΡ (G1063) п...
WHO SOUGHT THE YOUNG CHILD'S LIFE— Greek. _Who sought the soul;_ a Hebraism, of which our version gives the sense. See 1 Kings 10:14. Exodus 4:19 to which last passage the angel seems to allude. It is...
SECTION 4. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND RETURN TEXT: 2:13-23 13. Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his...
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. SAYING, ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHE...
18 Compare Jer_31:15. 18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel, who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...
2:20 sought (b-21) Lit. the seekers of.' The article and participle are used as a noun, characterizing the persons....
THE WISE MEN 1-12. The star in the east and the visit of the Magi (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident fits well into secular history. About the time when the star appeared (7 or 6 b.c.), Herod th...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 WISE MEN VISIT JESUS 2:1-12 V1 Jesus was born in the town called Bethlehem. This was in Judea district. At this time, Herod was the...
THEY ARE DEAD. — The use of the plural is noticeable, as Herod alone had been named. Possibly, however, others may have been implicated in the scheme; or the turn of the phrase may have been suggested...
CHAPTER 2 His Reception - Matthew 2:1 THIS one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the Infancy. St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little. This singular reticence h...
_Flight to Egypt, massacre in Bethlehem, return to Nazareth_. These three stories have one aim. They indicate the omens which appear in beginnings _omina principiis inesse solent_ (Ovid). The fortunes...
“OUT OF EGYPT DID I CALL MY SON” Matthew 2:16-23 The death of those little children was very pathetic. From the first it seemed as though our Lord's advent would bring not peace, but the sword. Thei...
The Kingdom was not ready for the King, so a reception for Him was not arranged and organized by those who should have been waiting for Him. They were in rebellion. The King's advent was heralded by a...
THE HOLY FAMILY RETURN FROM EGYPT 19-23, & Luke 2:39-40. _“And Herod having died.”_ We do not know how long they remained in Egypt, but evidently the period was brief. Scarcely has the wail of the sla...
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. The most interesting of all subjects, is to eye CHRIST as t...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the wi...
SAYING, ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER,.... Joseph strictly observed and obeyed the divine command of the angel, who had ordered him to continue in Egypt, till he brought him word what...
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. Ver. 20. _For they are dead which sought the young child...
_They are dead which sought the young child's life_ It has been conjectured by some, that Antipater, the son of Herod, who died but five days before his father, might also be referred to in these word...
The evangelist now returns to the story of the Savior:...
The deeply interesting account of Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of her Lord, the details as to His birth in Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds to the manger in which H...
19-23 Egypt may serve to sojourn in, or take shelter in, for awhile, but not to abide in. Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, to them he must return. Did we but look upon the wor...
Ver. 19,20. That is, as some say, within three or four months, for Herod, they say, no longer outlived this bloody act; and if we may believe historians, he was in his death made a dreadful example of...
Cyprian Epistle LXVIII But it is no wonder, since his brethren said of Joseph, "Behold, this dreamer cometh; come now therefore, let us slay him."[24]...
Matthew 2:20 saying G3004 (G5723) Arise G1453 (G5685) take G3880 (G5628) Child G3813 and G2532 His G846 mother G3384 and G2532 go G4198 (G5737) to G1519 land G1093 Israel G2474 for G1063 who G3588 sou...
JESUS IS DRIVEN INTO EXILE AND FINALLY RETURNS TO LOWLY NAZARETH (2:12-23). As a result of a warning dream the Magi did not return to Herod but slipped out of the country ‘another way', while Joseph...
CHRONOLOGY. We place the flight into Egypt a _fter_ the presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-39). The latter took place on the fortieth day, and the interval which this allows is too brief for the ev...
FOR THEY ARE DEAD (τεθνηκασιν). Only Herod had sought to kill the young child, but it is a general statement of a particular fact as is common with people who say: "They say." The idiom may be sugg...
Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,_ Probably from that Assyria which is joined with Is...
CONTENTS: Visit of the Magi, flight into Egypt, Herod's slaughter of the innocents. Return of Joseph and Mary to Nazareth. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Herod, chief priests, scribes, wise me...
Matthew 2:1. _Jesus was born in Bethlehem,_ as is illustrated in Micah 5:2. _In the days of Herod the king,_ the son of Antipater, and father of Archelaus, who succeeded him on the throne. Herod, who...
GET UP... GO BACK. Joseph is not told to return to Bethlehem or to Judea, just to the land of Israel. THOSE WHO TRIED TO KILL THE CHILD. "Those" implies more than one. Five days before his death, Hero...
CHAPTER 2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of king Herod. It is better to read here in the Greek _in Bethlehem-Juda_. Juda means the tribe of Judah, to which, after the schism...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 2:22. ARCHELAUS.—Succeeded to Judæa, Samaria and Idumea, but Augustus refused him the title of king till it should be seen how he conducted himself, giving him only the title...
EXPOSITION JESUS THE CHRIST BY HIS EARLY HISTORY answering to the word of God by the prophets. This is shown by four particulars, for each of which a corresponding prophecy is adduced. (1) The place...
Chapter Two Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king (Matthew 2:1), This is Herod the Great, that little short monster. He was a little over four feet tall, and as...
1 Kings 11:21; 1 Kings 11:40; 1 Kings 12:1; Exodus 4:19; Matthew 2:13; Proverbs 3:5; Proverbs 3:6...