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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Matthew 20

Matthew 20:1

MATTHEW CHAPTER 20 MATTHEW 20:1 The parable of the labourers who were hired at different hours to work in the vineyard. MATTHEW 20:17 Jesus foretells his own passion and resurrection, MATTHEW 20:20 answereth the petition of the mother of Zebedee's children, and checks the indignation of the other di... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:16

Ver. 1-16. We find this parable only recorded by St. Matthew; nor have any thing to guide us in understanding the scope of our Saviour in it, but ACTS 20:16, _So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen._ Some here by _first_ understand such as are of greatest... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:19

Ver. 17-19. Both Mark and Luke give us account of this passage. Mark saith, MARK 10:32, _And they were in the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:21

Ver. 20,21. Mark saith, MARK 10:35, _And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. And he said, What would ye that I should do for you? They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right han... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:22

Mark hath the same, MARK 10:38,39. Our Saviour gently reproves them for their unadvised petition, and again minds them, that he was first to suffer, and then to enter into his glory, and that by much tribulation they also must enter into the kingdom of God; which was a thing fitter for their present... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:23

OLBGrk; Mark hath the same, MARK 10:39,40. Our Saviour here tells them, that as he was first to suffer and then enter into his glory, so they that should be glorified with him should also first suffer with him; for none shall be crowned but those who _strive lawfully,_ 2 TIMOTHY 2:5; _and all that w... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:24

MARK 10:41. Here is not yet a word of Peter's primacy, or any claim he put in for it; nor, it seemeth, had the others any apprehension of such an establishment, for then neither would James and John have put in for it, nor would all the disciples (among whom Peter was one) have been so displeased at... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:27

Ver. 25-27. So Mark hath much the same, MARK 10:42. Luke hath also much the same, (but it seemeth spoken at another time), LUKE 22:25. I shall not here intermeddle with the disputes some have founded on this text: Whether there may be a civil, magistracy amongst Christians; a thing undoubtedly forei... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:28

OLBGrk; So saith Mark, MARK 10:45. The apostle saith, PHILIPPIANS 2:7 _he made himself of no reputation, and took on him the form of a servant._ Our Saviour had before taught them, that _the disciple is not above his master._ Such, saith our Saviour, as is the King in my kingdom, such must the ruler... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 20:34

Ver. 29-34. Mark repeateth the same story, MARK 10:46, with several more circumstances. 1. He mentions only one blind man, and nameth him _Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus._ He saith, the blind man was _begging._ Mark saith, when Christ called the blind man, they said unto him, _Be of good comfort, ri... [ Continue Reading ]

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