Matthew 20:28

And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 10:32....

28._As the Son of man _Christ confirms the preceding doctrine by his own example; for he voluntarily _took upon himself the form of a servant_, _and emptied himself_, as Paul also informs us, (Philippians 2:7.) To prove more clearly how far he was from indulging in lofty views, he reminds them of his death. “Because I have chosen you to the honor of being near me, you are seized by a wicked ambition to reign. But I — by whose example you ought to regulate your life — came not to exalt myself, or to claim any royal dignity. On the contrary, I took upon me, along with the mean and despised form of the flesh, the ignominy of the cross. If it be objected, that Christ was: exalted by the Father, in order that every knee might bow to him, (Philippians 2:9,)...

20-28 The sons of Zebedee abused what Christ said to comfort the disciples. Some cannot have comforts but they turn them to a wrong purpose. Pride is a sin that most easily besets us; it is sinful ambition to outdo others in pomp and grandeur. To put down the vanity and ambition of their request, Christ leads them to the thoughts of their sufferings. It is a bitter cup that is to be drunk of; a cup of trembling, but not the cup of the wicked. It is but a cup, it is but a draught, bitter perhaps, but soon emptied; it is a cup in the hand of a Father, John 18:11. Baptism is an ordinance by which we are joined to the Lord in covenant and communion; and so is suffering for Christ, Ezekiel 20:37; Isaiah 48:10. Baptism is an outward and...

Verse Matthew 20:28. _A RANSOM FOR MANY._] αυτρον αντι πολλων, or a _ransom_ _instead of many_, - one ransom, or atonement, _instead_ of the _many_ prescribed in the Jewish law. Mr. _Wakefield_ contends for the above translation, and with considerable show of reason and probability. The word λυτρον is used by the _Septuagint_ for the Hebrew פדיו, _pidion_, the ransom paid for a man's life: see Exodus 21:30; Numbers 3:49-4; and λυτρα is used Numbers 35:31, where a _satisfaction_ (Hebrew כפר _copher_, an _atonement_) for the life of a murderer is refused. The o

See also Mark 10:35. Matthew 20:20 THEN CAME TO HIM GIVE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE’S CHILDREN ... - This was probably Salome, Mark 15:40; Mark 16:1. WITH HER SONS - The names of these sons were James and John, Mark 10:35 Mark says they came and made the request. That is, they made it, as appears from Matthew, through the medium of their mother; they requested her to ask it for them. It is not improbable that she was an ambi

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 last chapter, which is repeated almost in the same words at the close, "Many that are first," etc., and "The last shall be first," etc. It taught the apostles a lesson in answer to Peter's question (Matthew 19:27), "What shall we have therefore?" and the primary lesson was that the reward of the kingdom is not of debt, but of grace. There are many difficulties in the parable, which may be better noticed after we have expounded it

EVEN AS THE SON OF MAN,.... Meaning himself, the seed of the woman, the son of Abraham, and of David, according to the flesh; and whom he proposes as an example of humility, and as an argument to draw them off from their ambitious views of worldly grandeur, and from all thoughts of the Messiah's setting up a temporal kingdom; since he CAME NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO by others; to be attended on in pomp and state, to have a numerous retinue about him, waiting upon him, and ministering to him; as is the case of the princes, and great men of the world; though he is Lord of all, and King of kings; BUT TO MINISTER; in the form of a servant unto others, going about from place to place to do good, both to the bodies and souls of men: he "came" forth from his Father, down from heaven, into this world, by his assumption of human nature, to "minister" in the prophetic office, by preaching the Gos...

Matthew 20:1. _For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard._ It was a fair wage. It was for fair and healthful work which they were to do in the vineyard. They were happy men to be hired so early in the morning. Never do those that serve Christ reject him; and though in this parable some are represented as finding fault with their wages, yet Christ's true servants do not so. Their only request is, «Dismiss me not thy service, Lord.» They feel it to be reward enough to be permitted to go on working. Indeed, this is one way in which we get our wages during the day. If we keep one precept, God gives us grace to keep another. If we perform one duty, God gives us the privilege to perform another. S

SON OF MAN (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 8:20). _ Also (Philippians 2:7). RANSOM See (Isaiah 53:10); (Isaiah 53:11). Also (Matthew 20:22); "cup," margin reference, ( See Scofield) - (Matthew 20:22); (Exodus 14:30); (Is

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