What does Matthew 24:51 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And shall cutb him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Verse Matthew 24:51. _CUT HIM ASUNDER_] This refers to an ancient mode of punishment used in several countries. Isaiah is reported to have been _sawed_ ASUNDER. That it was an ancient mode of punishm...
This passage is, in fact, “a parable,” though it is not expressly so called. The design is to show that his disciples should act as if they were each moment expecting his return. This he illustrates b...
12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
MATTHEW 24:42 TO MATTHEW 25:13. Abbreviating Mark 13:33, with its simile of the absent householder, into one verse (Matthew 24:42; _cf._ Luke 21:36), Mt. inserts (_a)_ the short simile of a householde...
THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...
WEEPING AND GNASHING. See note on Matthew 8:12....
The Stewards of God Luke 12:41-48, where this parable is joined on to the preceding one by a question of St Peter, "Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?" Mark 13:37 has "what I s...
THE COMING OF CHRIST; THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS More briefly reported in Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36...
VER 42. "WATCH THEREFORE: FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME. 43. BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN IN WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND WO...
_THE FAITHFUL MUST WATCH AND PREPARE MATTHEW 24:45-51_ : The servant who watches for the Master's return will have a great motivation to faithfulness and will be blessed. "Blessed is that servant whom...
ΔΙΧΟΤΟΜΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΧΟΤΟΜΈΩ (G1371) рассекать пополам. В Exodus 29:17 этот гл. используется для обозначения рассечения на части жертвенного животного (McNiele; Hagner; _см._ Matthew 24:4...
BUT, &C.— _But if that servant, being evil, shall say,_ &c. Heylin. "If on the other hand you behave like wicked stewards, who, because their Lord delays his coming, beat their fellow-servants, and ge...
3. ILLUSTRATION OF THE CONSCIENTIOUS AND THE HYPOCRITICAL SERVANT (24:45-51) 45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due se...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...
29-31 Compare Mar_13:24-26; Luk_21:26-27. 29 See Rev_6:12-17; Isa_13:10; Joe_2:30-31; Joe_3:15; Amo_5:20. 29 Israel goes through the great affliction, and watches for the Son of Mankind, Who will sta...
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came up...
AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER. — Here also, as in the case of the faithful servant, the words have more than one fulfilment. The form of punishment (one which, in its literal sense, belongs to the inventi...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of co...
_Two parables: the Thief_ and _the Two Servants_, enforcing the lesson: Watch!...
WATCH AND WORK Matthew 24:40-51 There are many comings of the Son of man before the final one to judgment. We may derive the full benefit of our Lord's words, even though we have arrived at no settl...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
And shall (y) cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (y) That is, from the rest, or will cut him into two pieces, which was...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuing day, and His crucifixio...
"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until th...
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...
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...
AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER,.... The Persic version renders it, "he shall separate him from himself": he shall separate soul and body by death; he shall take away all his gifts and talents from him; and...
And shall cut him asunder, and appoint _him_ his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Ver. 51. _And shall cut him asunder_] Gr. διχοτομησει, shall cut him in twa...
_Who then is the faithful and wise servant_ Which of you aspires after this character? _Wise_ Every moment retaining the clearest conviction that all he now has is only intrusted to him as a steward:...
CUT HIM ASUNDER; the reference is to the punishment of cutting or sawing asunder. The meaning is, he shall punish him with awful severity....
The unfaithful servant:...
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
CUT HIM ASUNDER: Or, cut him off...
42-51 To watch for Christ's coming, is to maintain that temper of mind which we would be willing that our Lord should find us in. We know we have but a little time to live, we cannot know that we have...
Ver. 47-51. Luke hath much of this, LUKE 12:45,46: _But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the men servants and maidens, and to eat and drink, a...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII Thou shalt not be an hypocrite, lest thy "portion be with them."[52]...
WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...
Matthew 24:45-51. A parable, though not distinctly marked as such in its form. Comp. the parallel account in Mark 13:34-36; and similar language on another occasion in Luke 12:35-46. Such repetitions...
Matthew 24:42. _Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come._ That he will come, is certain. That his coming may be at any moment, is equally sure; and, therefore, we ought to be a...
CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...
Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
WHO, THEN, IS THE FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT? This parable is also found in Luke [it may have been told many times by Jesus]. See also 2 Peter 3:1-9, The central idea of this parable is that God's peop...
Who, then, is that faithful and wise servant. I. The particular relation in which we are here represented as standing to the one that is above us. II. The representation that is here given of that a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:48 DELAYED. The behavior of the WICKED SERVANT shows that he is a false disciple (see Galatians 5:19) and deserves judgment. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagNam...
JESUS TELLS ABOUT HIS RETURN MATTHEW 24:36-51; MARK 13:32-37; LUKE 21:34-36; LUKE 12:39-46; MATTHEW 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no [_man_], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 24:36_ The uncertainty of the end.—We ought to know the season, we cannot know the moment, of the “appearing” of Christ. So the Saviour teaches us here. “O...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. (Mark 13:1; Luke 21:5.) There is no reason to think, with Olshauson, that St. Matthew or his editor ha...
Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...
Isaiah 33:14; Job 20:29; Luke 12:46; Luke 13:28; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 25:30; Matthew 8:12...
And allot him his portion with the hypocrites — The worst of sinners, as upright and sincere as he was once. If ministers are the persons here primarily intended, there is a peculiar propriety in the...