Matthew 12:18

my servant Israel as a nation is called the servant of Jehovah, Isaiah 41:8. Here the same title is given to Jesus, as the representative of the nation.

judgment The Hebrew word is used in a wider sense to denote "religion as the rule of life;" hence judgmentmay mean (1) "the law of Christ," "the Gospel," or (2) adhering to the strict meaning of the Greek word, "the divine sentence or decree."

to the Gentiles Possibly our Lord in His retirement addressed Himself more especially to the Gentiles the Greeks, Phœnicians, and others, settled near the Lake. "They about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, … came unto him," Mark 3:8.