What does Matthew 21:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them,Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"
Verse Matthew 21:16. _OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES_] The eighth Psalm, out of which these words are quoted, is applied to Jesus Christ in _three_ other places in the new covenant, 1 Corinthians 15:27; Ep...
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 THE TEMPLE OF GOD ... - From Mark 1...
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 CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE (Mark 11:15 *, Luke 19:45; John 2:13). Mt. here omits the first part of Mk.'s divided account of the figtree, and links the Temple incident with the entry. It is the temple...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
SAY. are saying. HAVE YE NEVER READ... ? See App-143. OUT OF THE MOUTH, &C. Quoted from Psalms 8:2. perfected. prepared. Greek. _katartizo =_ to perfect by preparing See App-126....
_Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise_ Rather, _out of_(or by) _the mouths of_ CHILDREN _and sucklings hast thou_ FOUNDED STRENGTH. Psalms 8:2. The ruling thought of the...
15, 16. THE CHILDREN’S PRAISE Peculiar to St Matthew....
VER 10. AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO JERUSALEM, ALL THE CITY WAS MOVED, SAYING, WHO IS THIS? 11. AND THE MULTITUDE SAID, THIS IS JESUS THE PROPHET OF NAZARETH OF GALILEE. 12. AND JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMP...
_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS ENTERED JERUSALEM AND CLEANSED THE TEMPLE MATTHEW 21:1-17:_ One of the great statements from this section concerned the donkey and colt, "The Lord has need of them." Yo...
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DISCOURSE: 1385 CHILDREN VINDICATED Matthew 21:16. _Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?_ THE wisdom of our Lord was very conspicuous in the answers...
AND THE BLIND AND THE LAME CAME TO HIM, &C.— The opinion that Jesus was the Messiah now prevailed generally; for, while he was in the temple, the _blind_ and the _lame,_ and other diseased persons, we...
SECTION 55 JESUS CLEANSES THE TEMPLE A LAST TIME AND RECEIVES WORSHIP OF CHILDREN (Parallels: Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48) TEXT: 21:12-17 12 And. Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast ou...
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...
21:16 read, (d-19) Psalms 8:2 ....
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...
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 of...
HEAREST THOU WHAT THESE SAY? — The priests and scribes had probably remained in the Temple, and had not heard the Hosannas which were raised on the Mount of Olives. The shouts of the children were the...
_Jesus visits the Temple_ (Mark 11:11; Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48)....
THE LORD OF THE TEMPLE Matthew 21:8-17 It was only a crowd of poor people who escorted Jesus on Palm Sunday to the Holy City; but they sent their hosannas upward to the highest, and their shouts of...
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...
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast (h) perfected praise? (h) You have made most perf...
_Have you never read: Out of the mouth, &c. The words are Psalm viii. 3, which some apply to the praises the people gave to David, when he had conquered Goliath, but Christ applies them to the present...
TRIUMPHANT ENTRY John 12:12-19; Matthew 21:1-11; Matthew 21:14-17; Luke 19:29-44; Mark 11:1-11. John: _“On the morrow a great multitude, having come to the feast, hearing that Jesus comes into Jerusal...
"And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased, (16) And said u...
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...
16._And have you never read? _The scribes and priests seize on this as an opportunity of calumniating Christ, that he allows himself to be called a King by _children; _as it is always the custom of wi...
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...
AND SAID UNTO HIM, HEAREST THOU WHAT THESE SAY?.... Suggesting, that if he did, he ought to reprove them, or else he would be a very vain, as well as a weak man, to take such things to himself, which...
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? Ver. 16. _Thou hast perfected p...
Mat. 21:12-16. _Concerning making Christ's house a den of thieves, etc._ The apostate Jewish church that was in Christ's time, was in many things an image of the apostate Christian church, or rather t...
_When the chief priests, &c., saw the wonderful things he did_ The undeniable and astonishing miracles which he performed, _and the children crying in the temple_, and continuing the song which the mu...
READ, Psalms 8:2. The quotation was from the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, where the words "ordained strength" in the Hebrew, are translated "perfected praise." The conversio...
The confession of the children...
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...
12-17 Christ found some of the courts of the temple turned into a market for cattle and things used in the sacrifices, and partly occupied by the money-changers. Our Lord drove them from the place, as...
Ver. 15,16. The other evangelists say nothing of this part of this history. The _wonderful things_ here mentioned, are his healing the blind and lame, of which we read MATTHEW 21:14. The cry of the ch...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV and for this reason were unwilling that the king should come, and who said to Him, "Hearest thou what these say? "did the Lord reply, "Have ye never read, Out of the...
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THE RIDE INTO JERUSALEM (21:8-17). Passover time was always a time of high excitement and fervour. At that time pilgrims would be flooding into Jerusalem from Galilee and Peraea, as well as from Juda...
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...
HEAREST THOU (ακουεις). In a rage at the desecration of the temple by the shouts of the boys they try to shame Jesus, as responsible for it. THOU HAST PERFECTED (κατηρτισω). The quotation is from...
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...
DO YOU HEAR WHAT THEY ARE SAYING? They vent their anger against the children, because they think this will cause them the least amount of trouble. INDEED I DO. He scolds all who despise children. He q...
_The children crying in the temple._ THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHILDREN’S PIETY It is upon the child that this sarcastic question still falls. Some hardly think the children can be converted. The Saviour’s...
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), actions in the temple (Matthew 21:12)...
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, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? Matthew 21:11 And the multitude...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 21:12. CAST OUT.—Apparently a second cleansing of the temple. See John 2:15. THEM THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE.—The first person to introduce this sacrilegious custom w...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 21:1 _Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.) MATTHEW 21:1 We have come to the last week of our Lord's earthly life, when he made his appearance in...
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...
Acts 4:16; John 11:47; John 11:48; Luke 19:39; Luke 19:40; Mark 2:25; Matthew 11:25; Matthew 12:3; Matthew 19:4; Matthew 22:31;...
Say [λ ε γ ο υ σ ι ν]. The Rev. is more graphic, are saying. While the songs and shouts are rising, the priests turn angrily to Christ with the question, "Hearest thou what these are saying?" Thou ha...
Psalms 8:2....
(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....