Matthew 16:1
A sign from heaven — Such they imagined Satan could not counterfeit. Mark 8:11; Matthew 12:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
A sign from heaven — Such they imagined Satan could not counterfeit. Mark 8:11; Matthew 12:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke 12:54.... [ Continue Reading ]
The signs of the times — The signs which evidently show, that this is the time of the Messiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
A wicked and adulterous generation — Ye would seek no farther sign, did not your wickedness, your love of the world, which is spiritual adultery, blind your understanding.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark 8:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees — That is, of their false doctrine: this is elegantly so called; for it spreads in the soul, or the Church, as leaven does in meal. Luke 12:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
They reasoned among themselves — What must we do then for bread, since we have taken no bread with us?... [ Continue Reading ]
Why reason ye — Why are you troubled about this? Am I not able, if need so require, to supply you by a word?... [ Continue Reading ]
How do ye not understand — Beside, do you not understand, that I did not mean bread, by the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jesus coming — There was a large interval of time between what has been related, and what follows. The passages that follow were but a short time before our Lord suffered. Mark 8:27; Luke 9:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jeremiah, or one of the prophets — There was at that time a current tradition among the Jews, that either Jeremiah, or some other of the ancient prophets would rise again before the Messiah came.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter — Who was generally the most forward to speak.... [ Continue Reading ]
Flesh and blood — That is, thy own reason, or any natural power whatsoever.... [ Continue Reading ]
On this rock — Alluding to his name, which signifies a rock, namely, the faith which thou hast now professed; I will build my Church — But perhaps when our Lord uttered these words, he pointed to himself, in like manner as when he said, Destroy this temple, John 2:19; meaning the temple of his body.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven — Indeed not to him alone, (for they were equally given to all the apostles at the same time, John 20:21;) but to him were first given the keys both of doctrine and discipline. He first, after our Lord's resurrection, exercised the apostleship, Acts... [ Continue Reading ]
Then charged he his disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ — Jesus himself had not said it expressly even to his apostles, but left them tb infer it from his doctrine and miracles. Neither was it proper the apostles should say this openly, before that grand proof of it, his resurrection. If... [ Continue Reading ]
From that time Jesus began to tell his disciples, that he must suffer many things — Perhaps this expression, began, always implied his entering on a set and solemn discourse. Hitherto he had mainly taught them only one point, That he was the Christ. From this time he taught them another, That Christ... [ Continue Reading ]
Get thee behind me — Out of my sight. It is not improbable, Peter might step before him, to stop him. Satan — Our Lord is not recorded to have given so sharp a reproof to any other of his apostles on any occasion. He saw it was needful for the pride of Peter's heart, puffed up with the commendation... [ Continue Reading ]
If any man be willing to come after me — None is forced; but if any will be a Christian, it must be on these terms, Let him deny himself, and take up his cross — A rule that can never be too much observed: let him in all things deny his own will, however pleasing, and do the will of God, however pai... [ Continue Reading ]
Whosoever will save his life — At the expense of his conscience: whosoever, in the very highest instance, that of life itself, will not renounce himself, shall be lost eternally. But can any man hope he should be able thus to renounce himself, if he cannot do it in the smallest instances? And whosoe... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Son of man shall come — For there is no way to escape the righteous judgment of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
And as an emblem of this, there are some here who shall live to see tho Messiah coming to set up his mediatorial kingdom, with great power and glory, by the increase of his Church, and the destruction of the temple, city, and polity of the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]