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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.
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.
Verse Matthew 9:36. _MOVED WITH COMPASSION_] εσπλαγχνισθη, from σπλαγχνον _a bowel_. The Jews esteemed _the bowels_ to be the seat of sympathy and the tender passions, and so applied the _organ_ to th...
BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES - That followed him from place to place. When he saw their anxiety to be instructed and saved. HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION ON THEM - He pitied them. BECAUSE THEY FAINT...
CHAPTER 9 1. A Man Sick of the Palsy Healed. (Matthew 9:1 .) 2. The Call of Matthew (Matthew 9:9 .) 3. With the Publicans and the Sinners. (Matthew 9:10 .) 4. The Question of John's Disciples. ...
MATTHEW 9:36 TO MATTHEW 10:4. THE SENDING OF THE TWELVE. Jesus sees the people distressed and scattered better, mishandled and lying helpless utterly unprepared, through lack of spiritual guidance and...
THE HARVEST AND THE LABORERS. -- Matthew 9:35-38; Matthew 10:1-8. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ Freely ye have received, freely give._ -- Matthew 10:8. TIME. --A. D. 28. PLACE. --Somewhere in the vicin
THE GROWTH OF OPPOSITION (Matthew 9:1-34) We have repeatedly seen that in Matthew's gospel there is nothing haphazard. It is carefully planned and carefully designed. In Matthew 9:1-38 we see another...
ON. concerning. Greek. _peri_. fainted. were wearied. All the texts (App-94.) read "were harassed". AS. Figure of speech _Simile._ App-6. NO. Greek. _me._ App-105. Read this with having. feeling as...
_fainted_ The word in the received text has no MS. authority; read HARASSED. _scattered abroad_ Rather, perhaps, _neglected, set at nought_, rejected by the national teachers....
THE PREACHING OF JESUS. THE HARVEST OF THE WORLD This passage forms the preface to the mission of the twelve. The connection points to a regular sequence of thought in St Matthew’s plan. The work of C...
ἘΣΚΥΛΜΈΝΟΙ. A certain change for ἐκλελυμένοι. ἘΡΙΜΜΈΝΟΙ, for ἐρριμμένοι, in accordance with the more ancient MSS; but D* has ῥεριμμένοι. 36. ἘΣΠΛΑΓΧΝΊΣΘΗ. σπλάγχνα = the nobler organs, heart, liver,...
VER 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. 37. THEN SAITH HE UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, "THE H...
_COMPASSION HEALED THE BLIND, MUTE AND CALLED FOR LABORERS MATTHEW 9:27-38:_ The request of the blind men was, "have pity and mercy on us." In compassion Jesus touched their eyes and gave them sight....
ΈΣΠΛΑΓΧΝΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΣΠΛΑΓΧΝΊΖΩ (G4697) сочувствовать, быть полным сострадания, нежности (ММ). Для детального изучения слова _см._ NIDNTT; TDNT. ΈΣΚΥΛΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ Σ...
DISCOURSE: 1340 OUR DUTY TO THE BENIGHTED WORLD Matthew 9:36. when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scatteredm abroad, as sheep having no she...
BECAUSE THEY FAINTED— The original εκλελυμενοι, denotes here a kind of _faintness;_ the weakness which is caused by hunger and weariness. See ch. Matthew 15:32.Hebrews 12:3. Thereare notwithstanding s...
SECTION 22 JESUS EVANGELIZES GALILEE AND SHARES HIS VISION WITH HIS DISCIPLES (Parallel; Mark 6:6 b) TEXT: 9:35-38 35. And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their syna...
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. BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES, HE WAS MOVED WITH...
14 It is a most difficult lesson for the saints to learn, that God's dealings with His creatures change, and that their conduct should change accordingly, John's disciples thought that the Lord's foll...
THE SICK OF THE PALSY. CALL OF MATTHEW. RAISING OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER 1-8. The paralytic healed and his sins forgiven (Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17). The peculiarity of this miracle is that it was worked to prov...
TOURS OF JESUS IN GALILEE (peculiar to St. Matthew, but cp. Mark 6:6; Mark 6:34; Luke 10:2). The early tours of Jesus in Galilee enabled Him to gain a comprehensive view of the actual spiritual condit...
Cp. Mark 6:34. 37, 38. St. Luke introduces this saying in connexion with the mission of the Seventy (Luke 10:2)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 9 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT WALK 9:1-8 V1 Then Jesus stepped into a boat. He went back across the lake and arrived at his own town. V...
HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION. — The words that follow are so vivid and emphatic that we may well believe them to have had their starting-point in our Lord’s own expression of His feelings. We find Him...
CHAPTER 9 The King's Ambassadors - Matthew 9:36; Matthew 10:1 I - THE MISSION. Matthew 9:36 - Matthew 10:1 So far the Kin
These verses look both backwards and forwards, winding up the preceding narrative of words and deeds from chap. 5 onwards, and introducing a new aspect of Christ's work and experience. The connection...
ἰδὼν δὲ τοὺς ὄχλους : in the course of His wanderings Jesus had opportunities of observing the condition of the people, and at length arrived at a clear, definite view as to the _moral and religious s...
PLANNING THE HARVEST Matthew 9:35-38; Matthew 10:1-4 A new chapter in our Lord's ministry opens at this point. As He walked amid the crowded towns and villages of Galilee, His heart was deeply moved....
The King now exercised His authority in a new way. He pronounced pardon on a sinner, and straightway opposition was aroused. To the questioning and rebellious hearts He vindicated His authority to for...
(8) 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. (8) Although the ordinary pastors cease, yet Ch...
He had compassion on them. The bowels of his compassion yearned to see multitudes cast down and oppressed, like sheep that are without a shepherd. The Pharisees indeed were their shepherds; but they a...
THIRD EVANGELISTIC TOUR Matthew 9:35-36; Mark 6:6. Matthew _“And Jesus was a going round all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing...
What an interesting sight must it have been to have seen Jesus thus engaged, preaching the doctrines of grace, and confirming the word with ministering to all the wants of nature. And I beg the Reader...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD_ ‘When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.’ Matthew 9:36 The bearing...
36._He was moved with compassion towards them _Hence we infer, first, how great was the indolence of the priests, who, though they were scattered over the whole country, in order to enlighten the peop...
In the following chapter (chapter 9), while acting in the character and according to the power of Jehovah (as we read in Psalms 103), "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases...
BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES,.... As he took his circuit through the several cities, towns, and villages, he made his observations upon the large numbers that flocked to his ministry, and seemed to...
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. Ver. 36. _He was moved with compassion_] His eye so...
_Jesus went about all the cities, teaching in their synagogues_ See on Matthew 4:23. _When he saw the multitude he was moved with compassion_ Having come from heaven to earth to seek and save lost sin...
SHEEP HAVING NO SHEPHERD; not provided with proper guardians and teachers....
Returning to His own city, Capernaum, He has brought to Him a man totally helpless, lying on a bed. This case of palsy is indicative of the complete debilitating effects of sin: man is left without st...
FAINTED, AND WERE SCATTERED ABROAD: Or, were tired and lay down...
35-38 Jesus visited not only the great and wealthy cities, but the poor, obscure villages; and there he preached, there he healed. The souls of the meanest in the world are as precious to Christ, and...
OLBGrk; Mark hath something of this, MARK 6:34. It pitied him, who came down from heaven to earth to seek and to save lost souls, to see what a company of people followed him, willing to be instructed...
Matthew 9:36 But G1161 saw G1492 (G5631) multitudes G3793 compassion G4697 (G5675) for G4012 them G846 because...
‘But when he saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.' The great crowds that gathered around Jesus had touched...
CONNECTION. The concluding verses of chap. 9, referring to a definite occasion, form a fit introduction to an account of the formal sending out of the Apostles. Matthew has already mentioned the first...
Matthew 9:36. BUT WHEN HE SAW THE MULTITUDES. The original indicates that this was on a particular occasion. HE WAS MOVED WITH COMPASSION. Popularity called forth pity. Our Lord's sympathy, like our...
WERE DISTRESSED AND SCATTERED (ησαν εσκυλμενο κα εριμμενο). Periphrastic past perfect indicative passive. A sad and pitiful state the crowds were in. Rent or mangled as if by wild beasts. Σκυλλω occ...
Matthew 9:36 Jesus Seeing the People. Note: I. What Jesus saw. He saw the multitudes. The range of His vision could not be limited, nor His ministry confined, to the immediate requirement of the mor...
Matthew 9:36 I. Our Lord here teaches us how to think of, or to look at, men. (1) Notice how here, as always to Jesus Christ, the outward was nothing, except as a symbol and manifestation of the inwar...
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._ This wa...
Matthew 9:1. _And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city._ Our Lord had given these Gergesenes an opportunity of becoming his disciples, the kingdom of God had come very...
Matthew 9:18. _While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall li...
Matthew 9:27. _And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house,_ I suppose the house at Capern...
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._ The sight that Christ saw with his...
CONTENTS: Healing of the palsied man. Call of Matthew. Answering the Pharisees. Healing of woman with issue of blood. Daughter of a ruler raised from the dead. Two blind men healed. A demon cast out....
Matthew 9:1. _Jesus came into his own city,_ Capernaum, as in Mark. Our Saviour was a stranger on earth, born in Bethlehem, an exile in Egypt, resident at Nazareth, but latterly in Capernaum. Matthew...
HIS HEART WAS FILLED WITH PITY FOR THEM. Our Lord felt very strongly the needs of every human being. BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED AND HELPLESS. The Pharisees were supposed to be the "shepherds of Israel,...
_But when He saw the multitudes._ CHRIST’S LOOK OF SYMPATHY I. What he saw. 1. Not reasons for admiration. 2. Not grounds for discouragement. 3. But a call for pity. II. The condition of the peo...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 9:36 Jesus’ COMPASSION is a regular theme in Matthew 1:1 (Ma
CHAPTER 9 _Passed over_ : that is, sailed across the sea of Galilee, to its western side. _And came into his own city._ Sedulius thinks Bethlehem is meant because he was born there. S. Jerome, with mo...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 9:36_ Preparing for change.—We seem here to be like men arriving at a new stage on their journey. At such a juncture they naturally ask, on the one hand, ho...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 9:1 _The_ _paralytic forgiven and healed. _Parallel passages: Mark 2:1; Luke 5:17. (For connexion of thought, cf....
And so he entered into a ship, and he passed over, and he came to his own city (Matthew 9:1). His own city being Capernaum. I told you that was his headquarters. And, behold, they brought to him a ma...
1 Kings 22:17; 2 Chronicles 18:16; Ezekiel 34:3; Hebrews 4:15;...
Fainted [η σ α ν ε σ κ υ λ μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev., better, were distressed. Note the verb with the participle, denoting their habitual condition. The word originally means to flay, rend, or mangle. Aeschylu...
Because they were faint — In soul rather than in body. As sheep having no shepherd — And yet they had many teachers; they had scribes in every city. But they had none who cared for their souls, and no...