Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Matthew 21:15-16
15, 16. THE CHILDREN’S PRAISE
Peculiar to St Matthew.
15, 16. THE CHILDREN’S PRAISE
Peculiar to St Matthew.
Verse Matthew 21:15. _THE CHIEF PRIESTS - WERE SORE DISPLEASED_] Or, _were_ _incensed_. Incensed at what! At the purification of the profaned temple! This was a work _they_ should have done themselve...
This paragraph contains the account of the barren fig-tree, and of the cleansing of the temple. See also Mark 11:12; Luke 19:45. Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into
9. THE KING ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM. The Parables of the Two Sons and the Householder and His Vineyard. CHAPTER 21 1. The King Enters Jerusalem. (Matthew 21:1 .) 2. The Second Cleansing of the Temple...
THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE (Mark 11:15 *, Luke 19:45; John 2:13). Mt. here omits the first part of Mk.'s divided account of the figtree, and links the Temple incident with the entry. It is the temple...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
When the chief priests and Scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children shouting in the Temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were angry. "Do you hear what these are saying?" t...
WONDERFUL THINGS. the wonders. Occurs only here. These were the Lord's final miracles, wrought at this crisis, and must have been very special in character. DID. wrought. CHILDREN. Greek. _pais._ Se...
The Children's Praise. Peculiar to St Matthew 15. _the chief priests_ The heads of the twenty-four priestly courses, as well as the high-priest and those who had served that office. See note ch. Matt...
Ver 10. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? 11. And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. 12. And Jesus went into the temp...
_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS ENTERED JERUSALEM AND CLEANSED THE TEMPLE MATTHEW 21:1-17:_ One of the great statements from this section concerned the donkey and colt, "The Lord has need of them." Yo...
ΊΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor._ acf. _part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΘΑΥΜΆΣΙΟΣ (G2297) чудесный; _adj._ в роли сущ.: "чудо" "чудеса" ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 21:6. ΚΡΆΖΟΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part....
AND THE BLIND AND THE LAME CAME TO HIM, &C.— The opinion that Jesus was the Messiah now prevailed generally; for, while he was in the temple, the _blind_ and the _lame,_ and other diseased persons, we...
SECTION 55 JESUS CLEANSES THE TEMPLE A LAST TIME AND RECEIVES WORSHIP OF CHILDREN (Parallels: Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48) TEXT: 21:12-17 12 And. Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out...
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? For the exposition, see Luke 19:1 after 5:44; and the notes at Mark 11:12. Now commences, as Alford remarks, that...
12 His first act as King was to cleanse the temple of idolatry, for covetousness is nothing less (Col_3:5). The temple tax, or double drachma (Mat_17:24) had to be paid by even the poorest of the peop...
CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. HOSANNAS OF THE CHILDREN (Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45). In St. Matthew this event seems to take place on Palm Sunday, but Mark 11:11 makes it clear that it did not occur till next...
SORE DISPLEASED] because even children were calling Jesus 'son of David,' i.e. 'Messiah.' Boys under fourteen are meant....
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels'). Sabbath, Nisan 8...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM 21:1-11 V1 As they came nearer to Jerusalem, they reached the town called Bethphage. It was on the Mount o...
THE CHIEF PRIESTS. — These, as commonly in the Gospels, were the heads of the twenty-four courses of the priesthood, as well as Annas and Caiaphas, who were designated by the title in its higher sense...
_Jesus visits the Temple_ (Mark 11:11; Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48)....
Matthew 21:14-17, peculiar to Mt....
τὰ θαυμάσια : here only in N.T., the wonderful things, a comprehensive phrase apparently chosen to include all the notable things done by Jesus (Meyer), among which may be reckoned not only the cures,...
THE LORD OF THE TEMPLE Matthew 21:8-17 It was only a crowd of poor people who escorted Jesus on Palm Sunday to the Holy City; but they sent their hosannas upward to the highest, and their shouts of a...
In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He revea...
(2) And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, (2) Those t...
Hosanna. St. Augustine (lib. de doct. christ. chap. xi.) thinks this word is an interjection of joy, without any particular meaning, denoting only affection, as Rocha is an expression of indignation....
TRIUMPHANT ENTRY John 12:12-19; Matthew 21:1-11; Matthew 21:14-17; Luke 19:29-44;...
"And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased, (16) And said u...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
15._When the chief priests and scribes saw. _Luke relates that the Pharisees began to grumble, while he was still on the road. (17) It was the disciples that were then crying out: the others wished to...
Afterwards (chapter 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as Kin...
AND WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES,.... The inveterate enemies of Christ; who upon hearing the shouts of the people at Christ's entrance into the city, and passage through it to the temple; and un...
And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, Ver. 15. _And t...
Mat. 21:12-16. _Concerning making Christ's house a den of thieves, etc._ The apostate Jewish church that was in Christ's time, was in many things an image of the apostate Christian church, or rather t...
_When the chief priests, &c., saw the wonderful things he did_ The undeniable and astonishing miracles which he performed, _and the children crying in the temple_, and continuing the song which the mu...
AND WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES SAW THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT HE DID, AND THE CHILDREN CRYING IN THE TEMPLE AND SAYING, HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID! THEY WERE SORE DISPLEASED,...
The confession of the children...
It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples ar...
12-17 Christ found some of the courts of the temple turned into a market for cattle and things used in the sacrifices, and partly occupied by the money-changers. Our Lord drove them from the place, a...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:16"....
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul -the former of which states, when meeting Him with approving shouts, proved its ability to offer Him testimony;[155] Cyprian Epistle IX For besides the visions of...
Matthew 21:15 But G1161 priests G749 and G2532 scribes G1122 saw G1492 (G5631) things G2297 that G3739 did...
‘But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David”, they were stirred with indig...
THE RIDE INTO JERUSALEM (21:8-17). Passover time was always a time of high excitement and fervour. At that time pilgrims would be flooding into Jerusalem from Galilee and Peraea, as well as from Judae...
Matthew 21:15. WONDERFUL THINGS. Including all His doings, especially this driving out of the traders. AND THE CHILDREN THAT WERE CRYING IN THE TEMPLE. The Hosannas of the day of entry were kept up...
The cleansing of the temple and the cursing of the barren fig tree were closely connected. According to the fuller account of Mark, on the day of His triumphal entry our Lord looked round about the te...
THE CHILDREN (τους παιδας). Masculine and probably boys who had caught the enthusiasm of the crowd....
CONTENTS: The triumphant entry. Jesus' second purification of the temple. Barren fig tree cursed. Jesus' authority questioned. Parable of the two sons in the vineyard. Parable of the house-holder dema...
Matthew 21:1. _When they were come to Bethphage._ The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of grossiti...
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW. These arch-enemies of Jesus were angry because of what he had done in the temple, and because the people were praising him....
_The children crying in the temple._ THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHILDREN’S PIETY It is upon the child that this sarcastic question still falls. Some hardly think the children can be converted. The Saviour’s...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over Jerusalem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), action
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:12 John’s Gospel records a similar cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry (John 2:13). Interpreters have proposed two explanations: (1) there was only o...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:15 HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID! Jesus acknowledges the children’s praise and links it to Psalms 8:2, thus claiming to be the Messiah.
JESUS CLEARS THE TEMPLE MATTHEW 21:10-19; MARK 11:11-19; LUKE 19:45-48; MATTHEW 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem,
_And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased_. Both because th...
1-46 CHAPTER 21 _And when they were come nigh_, &c. Mark has (Mark 11:1), "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, He sendeth forth two of His discip...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 21:12. CAST OUT.—Apparently a second cleansing of the temple. See John 2:15. THEM THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE.—The first person to introduce this sacrilegious custom wa...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 21:1 _Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately...
Isaiah 26:11; John 11:47; John 11:57; John 12:19; John 4:1;...
(CF. MARK 11:12-14; MARK 11:20)— When was the fig tree cursed by Jesus, before or after the temple was cleansed? PROBLEM: Matthew places the cursing of the fig tree after the cleansing of the temple....