VER 1. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END OF COMMANDING HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES, HE DEPARTED THENCE TO TEACH AND TO PREACH IN THEIR CITIES. Rabanus: The Lord having sent out His disciples to preach with the foregoing instructions, Himself now fulfils in action what He had taught in words,... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 2. NOW WHEN JOHN HAD HEARD IN THE PRISON THE WORKS OF CHRIST, HE SENT TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES, 3. AND SAID UNTO HIM, "ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME, OR DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER?" 4. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, "GO AND SHEW JOHN AGAIN THOSE THINGS WHICH YE DO HEAR AND SEE: 5. THE BLIND RECEIVE T... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 7. AND AS THEY DEPARTED, JESUS BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THE MULTITUDES CONCERNING JOHN, "WHAT WENT YE OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO SEE? A REED SHAKEN WITH THE WIND? 8. BUT WHAT WENT YE OUT FOR TO SEE? A MAN CLOTHED IN SOFT RAIMENT? BEHOLD, THEY THAT WEAR SOFT CLOTHING ARE IN KINGS' HOUSES. 9. BUT WHAT WE... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 11. "VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, AMONG THEM THAT ARE BORN OF WOMEN THERE HATH NOT RISEN A GREATER THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST: NOTWITHSTANDING HE THAT IS LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS GREATER THAN HE." Chrys.: Having first delivered the Prophet's testimony in praise of John, He rested not there, but a... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 12. "AND FROM THE DAYS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST UNTIL NOW THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SUFFERETH VIOLENCE, AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE. 13. FOR ALL THE PROPHETS AND THE LAW PROPHESIED UNTIL JOHN. 14. AND IF YE WILL RECEIVE IT, THIS IS ELIAS, WHICH WAS FOR TO COME. 15. HE THAT HATH EARS TO EAR, LET HIM... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 16. "BUT WHEREUNTO SHALL I LIKEN THIS GENERATION? IT IS LIKE UNTO CHILDREN SITTING IN THE MARKETS, AND CALLING UNTO THEIR FELLOWS, 17. AND SAYING, WE HAVE PIPED UNTO YOU, AND YE HAVE NOT DANCED; WE HAVE MOURNED UNTO YOU, AND YE HAVE NOT LAMENTED. 18. FOR JOHN CAME NEITHER EATING NOR DRINKING, AN... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 20. "THEN BEGAN HE TO UPBRAID THE CITIES WHEREIN MOST OF HIS MIGHTY WORKS WERE DONE, BECAUSE THEY REPENTED NOT: 21. WOE UNTO THEE, CHORAZIN! WOE UNTO THEE, BETHSAIDA! FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS, WHICH WERE DONE IN YOU, HAD BEEN DONE IN TYRE AND SIDON, THEY WOULD HAVE REPENTED LONG AGO IN SACKCLOTH... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 25. AT THAT TIME JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, "I THANK THEE, O FATHER, LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, BECAUSE THOU HAST HID THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT, AND HAST REVEALED THEM UNTO BABES. 26. EVEN SO, FATHER: FOR SO IT SEEMED GOOD IN THY SIGHT." Gloss, non occ.: Because the Lord knew that man... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 27. "ALL THINGS ARE DELIVERED UNTO ME OF MY FATHER: AND NO MAN KNOWETH THE SON, BUT THE FATHER; NEITHER KNOWETH ANY MAN THE FATHER, SAVE THE SON, AND HE TO WHOMSOEVER THE SON WILL REVEAL HIM." Chrys.: Because He had said, "I confess unto thee, Father, because thou hast hid these things from the... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 28. "COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. 29. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. 30. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT." Chrys.: By what He had said, He brought Hi... [ Continue Reading ]