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Matthew 24:45-51

Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant? This parable is also found in Luke [it may have been told many times by Jesus]. See also 2 Peter 3:1-9, The central idea of this parable is that God's people should not try to "boss" each other, thinking that Jesus has delayed so long that he will not come at all! Some think religion is a way to become rich, and they "begin to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards." Will cut him to pieces. Severely punish! Teachers will be judged with greater strictness (James 3:1). It is very important to teach the Truth of God. Those who teach lies will lose their reward, but the faithful will live forever!

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 45. _WHO THEN IS A FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT_] All should live in the same expectation of the coming of Christ, which a servant has with respect to the return of his master, who, in departing fo...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This passage is, in fact, “a parable,” though it is not expressly so called. The design is to show that his disciples should act as if they were each moment expecting his return. This he illustrates b...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MATTHEW 24:42 TO MATTHEW 25:13. Abbreviating Mark 13:33, with its simile of the absent householder, into one verse (Matthew 24:42; _cf._

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Watch, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes. Understand this--that if the householder had known at what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have been awake, and he...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OVER. at the head of Greek. _epi_. MEAT. their food. "Meat" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for all kinds of food (App-6)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Stewards of God Luke 12:41-48, where this parable is joined on to the preceding one by a question of St Peter, "Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?" Mark 13:37 has "what I s...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Who then is a faithful and wise servant_ The steward was generally a slave whom his master had chosen on account of his trustworthiness and intelligence to be the steward of his estate, his _villicus...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΟἸΚΕΤΕΊΑΣ, for θεραπείας (Luke 12:42) on good authority. The rare word οἰκετείας could not have been inserted as an explanation, whereas this may well have been the case with θεραπείας. א reads οἰκίας...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE STEWARDS OF GOD Luke 12:41-48, where this parable is joined on to the preceding one by a question of St Peter, ‘Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?’ Mark 13:37 has ‘what I s...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE COMING OF CHRIST; THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS More briefly reported in Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE LORD COMETH AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT Luke 12:39-40...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 42. "WATCH THEREFORE: FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME. 43. BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN IN WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND WO...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 45. "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? 46. Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall fin...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE FAITHFUL MUST WATCH AND PREPARE MATTHEW 24:45-51_ : The servant who watches for the Master's return will have a great motivation to faithfulness and will be blessed. "Blessed is that servant whom...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΦΡΌΝΙΜΟΣ (G5429) чуткий, вдумчивый, мудрый, ΚΑΤΈΣΤΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΘΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G2525) назначать, учреждать, ΟΊΚΕΤΕΊΑ (G2322) челядь, слуги. Об обращении с рабами у евреев _см._ SB, 4:698-744....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. ILLUSTRATION OF THE CONSCIENTIOUS AND THE HYPOCRITICAL SERVANT (24:45-51) 45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due sea...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    29-31 Compare Mar_13:24-26; Luk_21:26-27. 29 See Rev_6:12-17; Isa_13:10; Joe_2:30-31; Joe_3:15; Amo_5:20. 29 Israel goes through the great affliction, and watches for the Son of Mankind, Who will sta...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AN EXHORTATION TO FAITHFULNESS AND WATCHFULNESS ADDRESSED SPECIALLY TO THE APOSTLES AND OTHER CHIEF MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH (Luke 12:39). It appropriately closes the discourse, but whether it really b...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT (RM 'bond-servant')] though referring primarily to the Apostles and ministers of the Church, may be extended to all who have the care of the souls of others, or exercise sp...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHO THEN IS A FAITHFUL...? — Better, _Who then is the faithful and wise servant?_ The latter word in the Greek is that which ethical writers had used to express the moral wisdom which adapts means to...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τίς, who, taken by Grotius, Kuinoel, Schott, etc. = εἴ τις, _si quis_, supposing a case. But, as Fritzsche points out, the article before π. δοῦλος is inconsistent with this sense. πιστὸς, φρόνιμος :...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Two parables: the Thief_ and _the Two Servants_, enforcing the lesson: Watch!...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WATCH AND WORK Matthew 24:40-51 There are many comings of the Son of man before the final one to judgment. We may derive the full benefit of our Lord's words, even though we have arrived at no settl...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until th...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    45._Who is the faithful and wise servant? _This passage is more distinctly explained by Luke, who inserts _Peter’s _question, which gave rise to a new parable. Christ having declared that the suddenne...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHO THEN IS A FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT,.... The Vulgate Latin adds, "do you think?" and is a question put to the disciples, which they might apply to themselves: in Luke 12:42, it is spoken in answer...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Ver. 45. _Who then is a faithful and wise servant_] So every man ought to b...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Who then is the faithful and wise servant_ Which of you aspires after this character? _Wise_ Every moment retaining the clearest conviction that all he now has is only intrusted to him as a steward:...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    MADE RULER; given him the care of providing for his family....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WHO, THEN, IS A FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT, WHOM HIS LORD HATH MADE RULER OVER HIS HOUSEHOLD TO GIVE THEM MEAT IN DUE SEASON?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The faithful servant:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    42-51 To watch for Christ's coming, is to maintain that temper of mind which we would be willing that our Lord should find us in. We know we have but a little time to live, we cannot know that we hav...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:26"....

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV ), good and wise, whom the Lord sets over His household, to give them their meat in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when He cometh, shall find so...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?” Jesus now goes on to indicate what ‘watching' involves. For He has not cal...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IN THE LIGHT OF HIS SECOND COMING ALL ARE TO WATCH WISELY AND WORK FAITHFULLY (24:43-51). There now follow a series of parables in which Jesus stresses both the need to watch and the need to work. Ind...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 24:45-51. A parable, though not distinctly marked as such in its form. Comp. the parallel account in Mark 13:34-36; and similar language on another occasion in Luke 12:35-46. Such repetitions...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 24:45. WHO THEN IS! A personal question for every believer, but not a discouraging one. THE FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT. ‘Wise'(or prudent), because ‘faithful' in Christ's service. Faithfulnes...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FAITHFUL See (Luke 12:42); (1 Corinthians 4:2). It is faithfulness, not ability, in the Lord's service that is first approved by Him....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 24:42. _Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come._ That he will come, is certain. That his coming may be at any moment, is equally sure; and, therefore, we ought to be a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    Who, then, is that faithful and wise servant. I. The particular relation in which we are here represented as standing to the one that is above us. II. The representation that is here given of that a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:1 The Delay, Return, and Judgment of the Messiah. These two chapters are often called the “Olivet Discourse” because Jesus “sat on the Mount of Olives” when he spoke these w...

  • The Gospels Compared

    Jesus tells about his return Matthew 24:36-51; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36; Luke 12:39-46;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Matthew 24:36_ The uncertainty of the end.—We ought to know the season, we cannot know the moment, of the “appearing” of Christ. So the Saviour teaches us here. “Of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 4:2;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    In due season [ε ς κ α ι ρ ω]. At the regular hours which his Lord observes when at home; and not delaying because he thinks that his Lord delayeth his coming (ver. 48), but doing his duty in its appo...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Who then is the faithful and wise servant — Which of you aspires after this character? Wise — Every moment retaining the clearest conviction, that all he now has is only intrusted to him as a steward:...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    These words may be applied two ways. 1. To all the faithful servants of Christ in general. Thence learn, That for. person to spend and end his days in the service of Christ, and doing his will, give...

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