Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Matthew 3:14
διεκώλυεν, ‘was preventing,’ or, ‘endeavoured to prevent.’
διεκώλυεν, ‘was preventing,’ or, ‘endeavoured to prevent.’
Verse Matthew 3:14. _JOHN FORBAD HIM_] Earnestly and pressingly opposed him: this is the proper import of the words διεκωλευεν αυτον. I have observed that δια, in composition, most _frequently_, if no...
JOHN FORBADE HIM - Refused him. I HAVE NEED - It is more suitable that I should be baptized with thy baptism, the Holy Spirit, than that thou shouldest be baptized in water by me. I am a sinner, and...
3. THE HERALD OF THE KING; THE ENTRANCE UPON HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY. __ 1. The Herald of the King. (Matthew 3:1 .) 2. His Message and His Baptism. (Matthew 3:7 .) 3. The King in Jordan's Waters. (Matth...
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS (Mark 1:9 *, Luke 3:21 f.). Matthew 3:14 f. (Mt. only) meets the objection to the acceptance by a sinless Jesus of a baptism connected with repentance (p. 661). Jesus maintains (s...
II. JESUS. APTIZED. 14. JOHN FORBADE HIM. The objection that John made to the baptism of Christ implies some knowledge of him. Their mothers were cousins. We do hot know that they had any intercourse...
THE EMERGENCE OF JOHN THE BAPTIZER (Matthew 3:1-6)...
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent him. "It is I, he said, "who need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?" Jesus answered h...
FORBAD. was hindering. Greek. _diakoluo._ Occurs only here....
Jesus comes to be baptized of John. Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:32-34 St Luke adds two particulars: that the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus (1) "in a bodily shape," and (2) "while He was prayin...
_forbad him_ Rather, WAS PREVENTING, or, ENDEAVOURED TO PREVENT....
VER 13. THEN COMETH JESUS FROM GALILEE TO JORDAN UNTO JOHN, TO BE BAPTIZED OF HIM. 14. BUT JOHN FORBAD HIM, SAYING, "I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OF THEE, AND COMEST THOU TO ME?" 15. AND JESUS ANSWERING...
_JOHN BAPTIZED JESUS TO FULFILL RIGHTEOUSNESS MATTHEW 3:13-17:_ Years ago a lady told me that since Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist that made Jesus a Baptist. If my hair was cut by John the bar...
ΔΙΕΚΏΛΥΕΝ _impf. ind. act._ Конативный _impf._ ΔΙΑΚΩΛΎΩ (G1254) препятствовать, мешать, задерживать; здесь: пытаться предотвратить, удержать (RWP). ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ говорить, _см._...
BUT JOHN FORBAD HIM, &C.— _But John excused himself._ See the note on John 1:31. Doddridge and others have it, _Would have hindered_ or _prevented him,_ saying, _I have need to be baptized of you, and...
SECTION 6. JESUS IS BAPTIZED BY JOHN (Parallels: Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; cf. John 1:29-34) TEXT: 3:13-17 13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14. But...
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? BUT JOHN FORBADE HIM, [ diekooluen (G1254)] - rather, 'was [in the act of] hindering him,' or 'attempting to...
18 Compare Jer_31:15. 18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel, who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...
3:14 forbad (d-4) Imperfect, 'was so doing.' i.e. the act is presented as being then done, not historically presented as one past fact. baptised (e-12) Aorist tense, 'to be in the state of its having...
I HAVE NEED] not inconsistent with John 1:33 ('I knew him not'). As Jesus approaches, a prophetic presentiment passes through the mind of John that this is the Messiah. The descent of the Spirit makes...
APPEARANCE OF THE BAPTIST. BAPTISM OF JESUS 1-12. John the Baptist's ministry. The circumstances of John's birth are detailed in Luke 1 (see notes there). He was sanctified from birth to be the foreru...
BAPTISM OF JESUS (Mark 1:9; Luke 3:21; John 1:32). The Baptism of Jesus has more than one aspect and significance. To John it was with its miraculous accompaniments a sign that Jesus was the promised...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 THE WORK OF JOHN THE *BAPTIST 3:1-12 V1 In those days, John the *Baptist appeared in Judea’s wild country. V2 He taught the people...
JOHN FORBAD HIM. — Better, _sought to hinder Him._ Here again we have a question which we cannot fully answer. Did John thus forbid Him, as knowing Him to be the Christ? If so, how did that knowledge...
CHAPTER 4 His Baptism - Matthew 3:13. "THE baptism of John, was it from Heaven or of men?" This question must have been asked throughout the length and breadth of the land in the days of his mission....
διεκώλυεν : imperfect, pointing to a persistent (note the διὰ) but unsuccessful attempt to prevent. His reason was a feeling that if either was to be baptised the relation ought to be inverted. To und...
_Jesus appears, His baptism and its accompaniments_ (Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22)....
_John refuses_. It is instructive to compare the three synoptical evangelists in their respective narratives of the baptism of Jesus. Mark (Mark 1:9) simply states the fact. Matthew reports perplexiti...
BAPTIZED WITH THE SPIRIT Matthew 3:13-17 While John was denouncing the sins of others, he was very conscious of his own. He melted in holy humility before the one nature in which his keen eye detect...
Here ends the old prophetic line, John being the last of the Hebrew prophets. It found a fitting end in the stem ascetic who roused the nation and with vehement passion denounced their rebellion, and...
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-23. _“Then Jesus comes from Galilee unto Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.”_ Our Lord was six months younger than John, and hence He a...
CHAPTER 4 MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST BY MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE Luke 3:1-2. “In the fifteenth year of the dominion of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of...
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. It should seem from the modesty of John in first declining this of...
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...
14._I have need to be baptized by thee. _It is certain, that John acknowledged Christ to be not only a distinguished prophet, as many foolishly dream, but the Son of God, as he really was: for otherwi...
We now begin His actual history. John the Baptist comes to prepare the way of Jehovah before Him, according to the prophecy of Isaiah; proclaiming that the kingdom of heaven was at hand, and calling o...
BUT JOHN FORBAD HIM, SAYING,.... It appears from hence, that John knew Christ before he baptized him, and before he saw the Spirit descending and abiding on him, John 1:33 wherefore that was not a sig...
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? Ver. 14. _But John forbade him_] Flatly forbade him, and kept him out of the water with both hands earnestly; _...
_But John forbade him_ Out of modesty he would have declined the service, saying, _I have need to be baptized of thee_ To receive a larger measure of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit from thee,...
I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OF THEE; John, being a sinner, needed that spiritual renovation, the necessity and practicability of which were taught by baptism; but Jesus Christ being perfectly holy, did...
And yet Matthew writes: BUT JOHN FORBADE HIM, SAYING, I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED OF THEE, AND COMEST THOU TO ME? This passage is not out of harmony with John 1:31-33, where John says that he did no...
Though John was of a priestly family, this too is not mentioned. He does not preach in the temple, but in the wilderness of the river Jordan, at least thirteen miles from Jerusalem. For a priest to pr...
13-17 Christ's gracious condescensions are so surprising, that even the strongest believers at first can hardly believe them; so deep and mysterious, that even those who know his mind well, are apt t...
He did not absolutely repel him, but modestly excused himself for a time, knowing that Christ was already baptized with a more excellent baptism than he could administer to him, for God gave him the S...
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments Wherefore John, on seeing so great a humbling of Himself, was struck with astonishment at the affair, and began to prevent Him, saying, as ye have just...
Matthew 3:14 And G1161 John G2491 prevent G1254 (G5707) saying G3004 (G5723) I G1473 need G2192 ...
‘But John would have prevented him, saying, “I have need to be baptised of you, and do you come to me?” ' When John saw Jesus coming he felt himself unworthy to baptise Him. As his cousin he had good...
THE COMING ONE (3:11-17). John's large-scale ministry having been established in these few verses, Matthew now turns his attention to Jesus. We do not know how long John had been preaching before this...
THE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. THE MESSIAH IS REVEALED TO THE WORLD (3:1-17). Many years had passed by of which Matthew tells us nothing. He is not concerned to give us a biography of Jesus' life....
WOULD HAVE HINDERED (διεκωλυεν). Rather "tried to prevent" as Moffatt has it. It is the conative imperfect. The two men of destiny are face to face for the first time apparently. The Coming One sta...
Matthew 3:13. _Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?_ Who among us would n...
Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand._ His was a preparatory ministry; his work was to...
Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand._ There is no entering the kingdom of heaven with...
CONTENTS: Ministry of John the Baptist and baptism of Jesus. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, John. CONCLUSION: To follow Jesus in the waters of baptism is to publicly acknowledge our separation from sin, de...
Matthew 3:1. _In those days came John the Baptist._ When the time of the seventy weeks was fulfilled, when the sceptre was departed from Judah, and when all the east, according to Suetonius, expected...
BUT JOHN TRIED. While there is not evidence that John had ever met Jesus before, he knew something about him, and tried to change his mind. [Their mothers were cousins.] I OUGHT TO BE BAPTIZED BY YOU....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 3:1 John the Baptist Prepares for the Messianic Kingdom. John now appears, preaching in the Judean desert. It is more than 25 years since Joseph and his family moved back to N...
JESUS ' BAPTISM MATTHEW 3:13-17; MARK 1:9-11; LUKE 3:21-22; MATTHEW 3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptize
CHAPTER 3 _In those days_, &c. This was in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, as S. Luke says, when John and Christ were about thirty years of age. Matthew passes at once from the childhood of Christ to...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 3:13. JESUS … BAPTISED.—He received the rite as ratifying the mission of the great forerunner, and He also received it as the beautiful symbol of moral purification, and the...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 3:1 THE HERALD. His public appearance and proclamation (Matthew 3:1, Matthew 3:2), as foretold by Scripture ...
Chapter Three In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea (Matthew 3:1). Now we have the silent years of Christ. We are jumping now from the return to Nazareth to the b...
Acts 1:5; Ephesians 2:3; Galatians 3:22; Galatians 3:27; Galatians 4
Forbad [δ ι ε κ ω λ υ ε ν]. The A. V., following Wyc. and Tynd., misses the meaning of the verb. As in so many instances, it overlooks the force of the imperfect tense, which expresses past action, ei...
THE PREACHING AND BAPTISM OF JOHN Matthew 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish to present the great theme of John the Baptist as he preached in the wilderness of Judea. 1. THERE IS THE POSITIVE STATEMENT...
Note here, 1. The modesty of John's refusal: JOHN FORBADE HIM, and refused to admit him. But why? 1. In regard of Christ, because he knew he needed it not: such was his majesty and greatness, that he...