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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Matthew 9

Matthew 9:1

MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 MATTHEW 9:1 Christ cures one sick of the palsy, MATTHEW 9:9 calleth Matthew from the receipt of custom, MATTHEW 9:10 justifieth himself for eating with publicans and sinners, MATTHEW 9:14 and his disciples for not fasting. MATTHEW 9:18,19 is entreated by a ruler to go and heal his... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:2

The history of this miracle is reported by MARK 2:3; by Luke, LUKE 5:18; by both with more circumstances than Matthew doth report it. Mark saith, _He entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there w... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:3

Mark saith, _There were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?_ MARK 2:6,7. Luke saith, _The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can f... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:6

Ver. 4-6. Mark repeats almost the same words, MARK 2:8. So doth Luke, LUKE 5:22. Christ here giveth the scribes and Pharisees a demonstration of his Deity, by letting them know that he knew their thoughts, _Jesus knowing their thoughts said; _ a thing not compatible to angels, much less to one who i... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:8

Ver. 7,8. Mark saith. _And immediately he arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion,_ MARK 2:12. Luke saith, _And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and depa... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:9

Mark hath the same story, MARK 2:14, only he calleth him _Levi, _ and tells us he was the _son of Alphaeus._ Luke also mentions it, LUKE 5:27,28, and calls him LEVI, adding that he was _a publican, _ and saith that _he left all, rose up, and followed him._ This Matthew might have also the name of Le... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:10

Luke saith that _Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them,_ LUKE 5:29. Mark saith, _there were many, and they followed him,_ MARK 2:15. Matthew, touched with the sense of the free and infinite love of Christ to him... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:11

Mark hath the same, MARK 2:16; so hath Luke, LUKE 5:30, only he saith they _murmured._ The Pharisees having a perfect malice to Christ, did not only seek all means to carp at him, but to bring him under a popular odium: this seemed a fair opportunity. The publicans being an order of persons who both... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:13

Ver. 12,13. Mark and Luke, in the places before mentioned, have the same answer, only leaving out these words, _Go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, _ quoted from HOSEA 6:6. Our Saviour's reply to the Pharisees, to him that duly considers it, will appear very smar... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:17

Ver. 14-17. Mark hath this same history, almost in the same words, MARK 2:18, only he saith that some of the disciples of the Pharisees came with the disciples of John. Luke also hath it varying little, LUKE 5:33; only he saith, _fast often, and make prayers, _ (and), _the piece that was taken out o... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:19

OLBGrk; Ver. 18,19. Mark hath this history, MARK 5:22, _And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:21

Ver. 20,21. Mark addeth, MARK 5:26,27, that she _had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse; when she had heard of Jesus, she came in the press behind, and touched his garment, &c._ Luke saith, _the border of his garme... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:22

Matthew relates this story shortly, as he doth many others, being only intent upon recording the miracle. We must here supply something out of Mark and Luke. Mark saith, MARK 5:29, _And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. A... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:23

Neither Mark nor Luke speak any thing of the minstrels, but only of the people's wailing. Amongst the Jews we read not in any part of the Old Testament of musical instruments used at funerals, but amongst the pagans it was usual, as we read in their writers. Amongst the Jews, they had some songs san... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:24

Mark saith, MARK 5:39,40, _When he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and mother, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel wa... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:26

Ver. 25,26. Mark saith, MARK 5:41, _And he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishmen... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:31

Ver. 27-31. This miracle is reported only by St. Matthew, though the other evangelists tell us of some others of the same kind. They FOLLOWED HIM in the way, CRYING, AND SAYING, THOU SON OF DAVID, HAVE MERCY ON US. These are the first we read of in this Gospel, that made their applications to Christ... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:33

Ver. 32,33. Some think this the same mentioned LUKE 11:14, as shortly as it is here. The word in the Greek signifies deaf as well as dumb, for all persons who are deaf from their birth are also dumb. But it is probable this man was only accidentally dumb, from the power of the devil, that had posses... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:34

This was not the only time they said so: see MATTHEW 12:24 MARK 3:22 LUKE 11:15. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 12:24". I shall in my notes on MATTHEW 12:24 speak more fully to this text, where we shall also meet with our Saviour's vindication of himself from this imputation. At present, I shall only observe... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:35

We met with these words MATTHEW 4:23, only there it was _all Galilee, _ by which probably this text ought to be expounded: SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 4:23".... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:36

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, because they were eklelumenoi, or, as some read it, eskulmenoi, tired and wearied with running aft... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 9:38

OLBGrk; Ver. 37,38. The plain sense of these two verses is this: John the Baptist and Christ had now been preaching for some time, God inclined the hearts of great multitudes to follow both the one and the other; there was a great people prepared for the Lord: MATTHEW 11:12, _From the days of John t... [ Continue Reading ]

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