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Matthew 9

Matthew 9:1

AND HE ENTERED INTO A SHIP, AND PASSED OVER, AND CAME INTO HIS OWN CITY. Jesus complied with the request of the Gerasenes to depart out of their neighborhood. Entering into the boat in which He had come over with His disciples. He crossed back to the western side of the Sea of Gennesaret, to the ci... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:2

AND, BEHOLD, THEY BROUGHT TO HIM A MAN SICK OF THE PALSY, LYING ON A BED; AND JESUS, SEEING THEIR FAITH, SAID UNTO THE SICK OF THE PALSY, SON, BE OF GOOD CHEER, THY SINS BE FORGIVEN THEE. Matthew implies that there was a long process connected with the bringing of the sick man, which is told in deta... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:5

FOR WHETHER IS EASIER TO SAY, THY SINS BE FORGIVEN THEE, OR TO SAY, ARISE, AND WALK? As usual, the enemies of Christ had their representatives in the people surrounding Jesus, to counteract, if possible, the influence of His teaching and of His miracles. It was not a rude interruption which they tri... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:6

BUT THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT THE SON OF MAN HATH POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS, (THEN SAITH HE TO THE SICK OF THE PALSY,) ARISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND GO UNTO THINE HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:7

AND HE AROSE AND DEPARTED TO HIS HOUSE. Far from admitting a pretension on His part which would amount to a blasphemy, He, the Son of Man, deliberately assumes a divine prerogative also in healing the body. The greater includes the smaller: the right and the authority to pardon sins implies the pow... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:8

BUT WHEN THE MULTITUDES SAW IT, THEY MARVELED, AND GLORIFIED GOD, WHICH HAD GIVEN SUCH POWER UNTO MEN. They were not interested in the scruples of the scribes and Pharisees; the miracle settled the matter so far as they were concerned. They were filled with the fear of amazement and relevance: A Hea... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:9

THE CALL OF MATTHEW AND HIS FEAST. AND AS JESUS PASSED FORTH FROM THENCE, HE SAW A MAN NAMED MATTHEW SITTING AT THE RECEIPT OF CUSTOM. AND HE SAITH UNTO HIM, FOLLOW ME. AND HE AROSE AND FOLLOWED HIM. After Christ had performed the healing of the palsied man, He left the house in order to go down to... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:10

AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS JESUS SAT AT MEAT IN THE HOUSE, BEHOLD, MANY PUBLICANS AND SINNERS CAME AND SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND HIS DISCIPLES. Matthew, either upon his own initiative or at the suggestion of Jesus, caused a feast to be prepared, Mark 2:15; Luke 5:29. But here is a significant fact: public... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:11

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto His disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? They regarded the whole festival as a scandalous affair, but lacked the courage to address Christ directly on this matter, hoping incidentally thus to alienate the disciples from the Mast... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:13

BUT GO YE AND LEARN WHAT THAT MEANETH, I WILL HAVE MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICE; FOR I AM NOT COME TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS, TO REPENTANCE. Jesus heard the murmuring and took the fault-finders to task. He quotes a proverb in explanation of His own conduct, implying, at the same time, a criticis... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. Silenced on one point, the Pharisees attack on another, aided, in this case, by some disciples... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:16

NO MAN PUTTETH A PIECE OF NEW CLOTH UNTO AN OLD GARMENT; FOR THAT WHICH IS PUT IN TO FILL IT UP TAKETH FROM THE GARMENT, AND THE RENT IS MADE WORSE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:17

NEITHER DO MEN PUT NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES; ELSE THE BOTTLES BREAK, AND THE WINE RUNNETH OUT, AND THE BOTTLES PERISH. BUT THEY PUT NEW WINE INTO NEW BOTTLES, AND BOTH ARE PRESERVED. Just as Christ had emphasized the fitness of things in His apology for the disciples, He here insists upon proper co... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:18

WHILE HE SPAKE THESE THINGS UNTO THEM, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A CERTAIN RULER AND WORSHIPED HIM, SAYING, MY DAUGHTER IS EVEN NOW DEAD; BUT COME, AND LAY THY HAND UPON HER, AND SHE SHALL LIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:19

AND JESUS AROSE AND FOLLOWED HIM, AND SO DID HIS DISCIPLES. Jesus was still in earnest conversation with the Pharisees and the disciples of John, when there was an interruption. A ruler, or elder, of the synagogue at Capernaum, a man of some influence, coming in, threw himself down before the Lord... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:20

AND, BEHOLD, A WOMAN WHICH WAS DISEASED WITH AN ISSUE OF BLOOD TWELVE YEARS, CAME BEHIND HIM, AND TOUCHED THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:22

BUT JESUS TURNED HIM ABOUT, AND WHEN HE SAW HER, HE SAID, DAUGHTER, BE OF GOOD COMFORT; THY FAITH HAD MADE THEE WHOLE. AND THE WOMAN WAS MADE WHOLE FROM THAT HOUR.) Another applicant for help, a woman that had a bloody flux, a disagreeable, weakening disease, rendering Levitically unclean, Leviticus... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:26

AND THE FAME HEREOF WENT ABROAD INTO ALL THAT LAND. Jesus had purposely tarried and spent some time with the woman on the way over to the ruler's house. But now, coming into the house and seeing the flute-players and the noisy crowd of professional mourners which had even then gathered, mainly in th... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:27

FURTHER MIRACLES OF THAT DAY. AND WHEN JESUS DEPARTED THENCE, TWO BLIND MEN FOLLOWED HIM, CRYING AND SAYING, THOU SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON US. There was no respite for the Lord since His power over diseases was now generally known. Waiting at the door were two unfortunates with an affliction very... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:28

AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE HOUSE, THE BLIND MEN CAME TO HIM; AND JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, BELIEVE YE THAT I AM ABLE TO DO THIS? THEY SAY UNTO HIM, YEA, LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:31

BUT THEY, WHEN THEY WERE DEPARTED, SPREAD ABROAD HIS FAME IN ALL THAT COUNTRY. Jesus had taken no notice of the cries of the men on the street, either for fear of awakening false expectations, or in order to test their faith. But they were persistent with that importunity which usually conquered Jes... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:34

BUT THE PHARISEES SAID, HE CASTETH OUT DEVILS THROUGH THE PRINCE OF THE DEVILS. Hardly had the men of the last miracle gone from the room, in fact, while they were leaving the house, another sufferer was brought to the great Healer. In this case the evil spirits had blunted the faculty of speech. Th... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:35

AND JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING EVERY SICKNESS AND EVERY DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. Another summary of Christ's prophetical work, like chapter 4:23-25. Repeatedly, without becoming weary, Jesus makes... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:36

BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES, HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION ON THEM, BECAUSE THEY FAINTED, AND WERE SCATTERED ABROAD AS SHEEP HAVING NO SHEPHERD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:38

PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST THAT HE WILL SEND FORTH LABORERS INTO HIS HARVEST. Christ's ministry brought Him into the most intimate touch with the people, gave Him the clearest insight into their moral and religious condition. Two pictures were suggested to His mind: A flock of sheep n... [ Continue Reading ]

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