Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 1:21
Jesus — That is, a Saviour. It is the same name with Joshua (who was a type of him) which properly signifies, The Lord, Salvation. His people — Israel. And all the Israel of God.
Jesus — That is, a Saviour. It is the same name with Joshua (who was a type of him) which properly signifies, The Lord, Salvation. His people — Israel. And all the Israel of God.
Verse Matthew 1:21. _JESUS_] The same as Joshua, יהושע Yehoshua, from ישע _yasha_, he _saved, delivered, put in a state of safety_. See on Exodus 13:9; Numbers 13:16, and in the preface to _Joshua_....
HIS NAME JESUS - The name Jesus is the same as Saviour. It is derived from the verb signifying to save, In Hebrew it is the same as Joshua. In two places in the New Testament it is used where it means...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The King and the Offer of the Kingdom. Chapter s 1-12. 1. Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham. (Matthew 1:1 .) 2. From Abraham to David. (Matthew 1:2 .) 3....
THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH. In Mt., Joseph has the principal rô le; in Lk., Mary. Six inspired dreams are narrated in Mt., three of them with the angel of Yahweh. Five are in chs. 1 and 2, the sixth in...
The birth of Jesus Christ happened in this way. Mary, His mother, was betrothed to Joseph, and, before they became man and wife, it was discovered that she was carrying a child in her womb through the...
THE LINEAGE OF THE KING (Matthew 1:1-17)...
BRING FORTH. Not the same word as in verses: Matthew 1:1; Matthew 1:2; Matthew 1:16; Matthew 1:20. Greek. _tiklo._ Not "of thee" as in...
The Birth of Jesus Christ. Luke 1:26-56; Luke 2:4-7 St Mark and St John give no account of the birth of Jesus, St Luke narrates several particulars not recorded by Matthew, (1) the annunciation, (2)...
_Jesus_=Saviour] _Jesus_represents the Greek form, while _Joshua_represents the Hebrew form of the same name. The same Hebrew root occurs in the salutation _Hosanna:_see note, ch. Matthew 21:9. Joshua...
ΚΑΛΈΣΕΙΣ ΤῸ ὌΝΟΜΑ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ἸΗΣΟΥ͂Ν. _Jesus_ represents the Greek form, while _Joshua_ represents the Hebrew form of the same name. The same Hebrew root occurs in the salutation _Hosanna_: see note, ch....
THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST Luke 1:26-56; Luke 2:4-7 St Mark and St John give no account of the birth of Jesus, St Luke narrates several particulars not recorded by St Matthew, (1) the annunciation, ...
21.AND SHE SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS: FOR HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. Chrys.: What the Angel thus told Joseph, was beyond human thought, and the law of...
_THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH MATTHEW 1:18-21:_ "But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we mi...
ΤΈΞΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΤΊΚΤΩ (G5088) рождать, ΚΑΛΈΣΕΙΣ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΛΈ Ω (G2564) звать, называть. О том, что FUT. выражает повеление, _см._ МТ, 86; VA, 419. ΙΗΣΟΎΣ (G2424) Иисус...
DISCOURSE: 1278 THE IMPORT OF THE NAMES GIVEN TO CHRIST Matthew 1:21. Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for He shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled whi...
THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS— That is, _He shall be God the Saviour;_ for he shall prove that glorious and divine Person, the long-expected Messiah, intended by God _to save his people,_ even all th...
SECTION 2. THE ANNUNCIATION TO JOSEPH TEXT: 1:18-25 18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph. before they came together, she was found wit...
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. AND SHE SHALL BRING FORTH A SON. Observe, it is not said, 'she shall bear thee a...
1 David 1 Ozias 2 Solomon 2 Joatham 3 Roboam 3 Achaz 4 Abijah 4 Hezekiah 5 Asaph 5 Manasseh 6 Josaphat 6 Amos 7 Joram 7 Josiah [Ahaziah] [Jehoahaz] [Jehoash] [Jehoiakim] [Amaziah] [Jechon...
1:21 Jesus, (e-14) See Note, Exodus 17:9 ....
GENEALOGY AND BIRTH OF JESUS 1-17. Genealogy of Jesus: cp. Luke 3:23. The two genealogies of Jesus, which are constructed on quite different principles, require careful comparison and study, if their...
JESUS] see on Matthew 1:1. FOR HE SHALL SAVE] more exactly, 'for it is He that shall save.' 'Saving from sin' includes two processes: (1) atonement for sin, and (2) sanctification. Both are works of C...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ ABOUT MATTHEW The author was a *Jewish Christian who wrote especially for *Jews. One early Christian writer said, ‘Matthew collected what Jes...
THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS. — There is nothing strange in this being to Joseph the first knowledge of the name, which St. Luke tells us (Luke 1:31) had been previously imparted to Mary. The custom...
CHAPTER 1 The Coming of the Christ - Matthew 1:1 THE New Testament opens appropriately with the four Gospels; for, though in their present form they are all later in date than some of the Epistles,...
τέξεται Ἰησοῦν : Mary is about to bear a _son_, and He is to bear the significant name of _Jesus_. The style is an echo of O. T. story, Genesis 17:19, Sept [3], the birth of Isaac and that of Jesus be...
_Joseph delivered from his perplexity by angelic interposition_. How much painful, distressing, distracting thought he had about the matter day and night can be imagined. Relief came at last in a drea...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS. This section gives the explanation which ἐξ ἧς ἐγεννήθη (Matthew 1:16) leads us to expect. It may be called _the justification of the genealogy_ (Schanz), showing that while the bi...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST Matthew 1:18-25 The fear that Joseph, being a just man, might withdraw from their contemplated wedlock, would have filled Mary's heart with untold anguish had she not been...
The Gospel of Matthew portrays Jesus as King. It reveals Him as realizing in His Person, and enunciating in His teaching the great principles which had been the peculiar deposit and glory of the ancie...
And she shall bring forth (3) a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save (i) his people from their sins. (3) Christ is born of the same virgin who never knew a man: and is named Jes...
Jesus... he shall save, &c. The characteristic name of Saviour was peculiar to the Messias, by which he was distinguished, as well as by the adorable name of Jesus. The expectations of both Jew and Ge...
AN ANGEL APPEARS TO JOSEPH Matthew 1:18-25. We find that Gabriel spoke to Mary when she was wide awake, in broad daylight; but in the case of Joseph, he appears to him in a dream, while asleep; as Mar...
GENEALOGIES Matthew 1 and Luke 3. There is but one fact of vital importance in all of these genealogies, and that is the transmission to all generations, an infallible history of our Lord's progenitor...
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. It is very probable that this was the same angel which announced to Mary the first ti...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_PENALTY PAID, POWER CRUSHED_ ‘Thou shalt call His name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins.’ Matthew 1:21 The name above every name—‘Jesus,’ Saviour; a name sounding like music in...
_TWO GREAT TRUTHS_ ‘Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise … He called His Name Jesus.’ Matthew 1:18 The verses (18 to 25) begin by telling us two great truths. They tell us how the Lord Je...
21._And thou shalt call his name JESUS_. I have already explained briefly, but as far as was necessary, the meaning of that word. At present I shall only add, that the words of the angel set aside the...
The object of the Spirit of God, in this Gospel, being to present Jehovah as fulfilling the promises made to Israel, and the prophecies that relate to the Messiah (and no one can fail to be struck wit...
AND SHE SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME JESUS.] For though she was with child, it could not be known any otherwise than by prediction or divine revelation, that she should have a...
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Ver. 21. _And she shall bring forth a Son_] Shiloh, the son of her secundines: that...
_She shall bring forth a son_ Hers, not thine, for he does not say _to thee_, Christ being απατωρ, _without father_, as man. _And thou shalt call his name Jesus_ It belonged to Joseph, as being repute...
JESUS; Jesus is the same name as Joshua, or, as it is written by some of the later Hebrew writers, Jeshua. It signifies THE SALVATION OF JEHOVAH. SAVE; deliver from the pollution, power, guilt, conde...
The climax of the angel's message: AND SHE SHALL BRING FORTH, A SON, AND THOU SHALL CALL HIS NAME JESUS; FOR HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. It was thus ordained in God's counsel: She will g...
The genealogy of the King of Israel must be clearly established as from Abraham, the original father of the nation, and from David, the first king of God's choice, who is in many ways a type of Christ...
18-25 Let us look to the circumstances under which the Son of God entered into this lower world, till we learn to despise the vain honours of this world, when compared with piety and holiness. The my...
When the usual time of women is accomplished, SHE SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS. He shall not be thy natural son, but he shall be her son, not begot by thee, but brought...
First Apology of Justin And the angel of God who was sent to the same virgin at that time brought her good news, saying, "Behold, thou shalt conceive of the Holy Ghost, and shalt bear a Son, and He s...
Matthew 1:21 And G1161 forth G5088 (G5695) Son G5207 and G2532 call G2564 (G5692) His G846 name...
SECTION 2. THE BIRTH AND RISE OF JESUS THE MESSIAH (THE CHRIST) (1:18-4:25). In this section, following the introduction, Matthew reveals the greatness of Jesus the Christ. He will now describe the un...
“And she will bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS, for it is he who will save his people from their sins.” Mary is to bear a son and His name is to be called Ye-sus, ‘YHWH is salvatio...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS THE CHRIST (1:18-25). Jesus the Messiah having been introduced as a fulfilment of history from Abraham onwards, the narrative now commences with His birth. Given what a remarkable e...
The circumstances preceding the Nativity; Mary, doubted by her betrothed husband; his design of putting her away privately; her vindication by means of a dream; Joseph's faith; the name in accordance...
THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS (Καλεσιες το ονομα αυτου Ιησουν). The rabbis named six whose names were given before birth: "Isaac, Ishmael, Moses, Solomon, Josiah, and the name of the Messiah, whom...
SAVE See note, (Romans 1:16). (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _ SINS See note, (Romans 3:23). ( See Scofield) - ...
Matthew 1:21 I. Salvation from sin is the great necessity for man. This is a fact of universal observation. It is also a fact of universal consciousness. Men are so constituted that they cannot doubt...
CONTENTS: Generations of Jesus Christ. His conception and birth. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Joseph, Mary, generations of Christ from Abraham to David. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ was, in acc...
Matthew 1:1. _The book of the generation,_ or rather the genealogy, _of Jesus Christ._ This is the Hebraical mode of writing. Moses says, Genesis 5:1, This is the book of the generations of Adam. Jesu...
YON WILL NAME HIM JESUS. Jesus means "Savior." The Hebrew form is "Joshua" "Jehovah's Salvation." WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE. Not the Jewish Nation alone, but all who follow him. FROM THEIR SINS. Christ's s...
_Jesus._ THE DESIGN OF OUR SAVIOUR’S COMING I. Consider this as an enemy. 1. Behold sin with regard to God. 2. Behold sin in its names. 3. Behold the effects of sin. 4. That Christ derives from...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 1:21 JESUS. See note on v. 1. SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS. See Isaiah 40:2;
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 1:1 The Arrival of Jesus the Messiah. Matthew’s introduction echoes Genesis 1:1. The word in...
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 1:18. ESPOUSED = betrothed.—Among the Jews the betrothal took place a year before marriage, and during the interval the betrothed maiden remained with her own family. But fro...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 1:1 JESUS THE CHRIST BY HUMAN ANCESTRY, (Parallel passage: Luke 3:23.)...
Let's get into the Gospel According To Matthew. Matthew was a tax collector in Capernaum before he was called by Jesus Christ to be a disciple. He was also called Levi. And he opens his gospel by givi...
1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 3:5; 2 Kings 4:16;...
Shalt call. Thus committing the office of a father to Joseph. The naming of the unborn Messiah would accord with popular notions. The Rabbis had a saying concerning the six whose names were given befo...
THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Matthew 1:16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We here present one of the great omissions of the Bible, which constitutes one of the great proofs that Christ was virgin born. The earlier ve...
Observe here, 1. prediction of our Savior's birth; the virgin SHALL BRING FORTH. SON. 2.. precept for the imposition of his name; THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS, that is,. Savior. 3. The reason why t...