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Matthew 8:19

MATTHEW—NOTE ON Matthew 8:19 scribe. An expert in handling written documents. In Israel, scribes’ duties included teaching, interpretation, and regulation of the law.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Matthew 8:19. _A CERTAIN SCRIBE_] Though εις γραμματευς, ONE _scribe,_ may be considered as a Hebraism, yet it is probable that the _literal_ construction of it was intended, to show that few of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND A CERTAIN SCRIBE CAME ... - It is not improbable that this man had seen the miracles of Jesus, and had formed an expectation that by following him he would obtain some considerable worldly advanta...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    6. THE KING MANIFESTED BY SIGNS OF DIVINE POWER. Chapter s 8-9. CHAPTER 8 1. The Healing of the Leper. (Matthew 8:1 .) 2. The Healing of the Centurion's Servant. (Matthew 8:5 .) 3. The Healing of P...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ASPIRANTS TO DISCIPLESHIP (Luke 9:57). Mt. here breaks away from Mk.'s order, omitting Mark 1:35, and giving as the sequel to Jesus-' first stay at Capernaum what Mk. (Mark 4:35 to...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    CERTAIN SCRIBE SAID... I WILL FOLLOW THEE. Though this scribe belonged to. class which, as. body, rejected Christ he was disposed to be. disciple (see verse 21), but had not counted the cost of giving...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    When Jesus saw the great crowds surrounding him, he gave orders to go away, across to the other side. A scribe came to him. "Teacher, he said, "I will follow you wherever you may be going." Jesus said...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    LOVE IN ACTION (Matthew 8:1-34) Of all the gospel writers Matthew is the most orderly. He never sets out his material haphazardly. If in Matthew one thing follows another in a certain sequence, there...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A. one.. Hebraism for "a". MASTER. Teacher. App-98. Matthew 8:1. GOEST. mayest go....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Fitness for Discipleship. Luke 9:57-62 St Luke names three instances, and places the scene of the incident in Samaria. The instances are typical of the way in which Jesus deals with different charac...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    We are not told whether this scribe, thus brought face to face with privation and hardship, was daunted like the young ruler (ch. Matthew 19:16), or persevered like the sons of Zebedee (ch. Matthew 20...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    FITNESS FOR DISCIPLESHIP Luke 9:57-62. St Luke names three instances, and places the scene of the incident in Samaria. The instances are typical of the way in which Jesus deals with different charact...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΕἿΣ. To be taken in connection with ἕτερος δέ, the first in the enumeration. ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΎΣ. The accession of a Scribe to the cause of Christ must have appeared to the people as a great success. Language...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 18. Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. 19. And a certain Scribe came, and said unto him, "Master, I will follow thee whithersoever th...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _MIRACLES DEMANDED A FOLLOWING MATTHEW 8:16-22:_ Matthew tells us the Jesus did that which Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would do. (Matthew 8:16-17) "When evening had come, they brought to Him ma...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. temp. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) приходить, ΕΊΣ использовано в роли неопр. мест.: некий, один — RWP. ΕΊΠΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) י _см._ Matthew 8:8. ΔΙΔΆΣΚΑΛΕ (G...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest....

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

    5-13 Compare Luk_7:1-10. 5 This is followed by an intimation that, though rejected by His own, He would be accepted by the nations, as is the case in the book of Acts. The priest was at one end of the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LEPER CLEANSED. THE CENTURION'S SERVANT HEALED. HEALING OF PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER AND MANY OTHERS. STILLING OF THE TEMPEST. HEALING OF THE GADARENE DEMONIACS 1-4. Cleansing of the leper (Mark 1:40;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAYINGS TO A SCRIBE AND ANOTHER DISCIPLE (Luke 9:57). St. Luke introduces these sayings much later in our Lord's ministry. Both evangelists apparently borrowed from a common source, which did not spec...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A CERTAIN SCRIBE CAME. — The facts that follow are placed by St. Luke, as we have seen, in quite another stage of our Lord’s ministry. The fact that it was a scribe that came is striking, as showing t...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 8 The Signs of the Kingdom - Matthew 8:1 - Matthew 9:1 REFERRING to Matthew 4:23, we find the work of Christ at the beginning of His ministry summarised as teaching and preaching and healing...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Matthew 8:19, εἶς, either “ _one_, a scribe” (Weiss and very decidedly Meyer, who says that εἶς never in N. T. = τὶς), or “a _certain_ scribe,” indefinite reference, so Fritzsche, falling back on Suic...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Excursion to the eastern shore with its incidents_ (Mark 4:35 to Mark 5:20; Luke 8:22-39). These narratives make a large leap forward in the history. As our evangelist is giving a collection of heali...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LEADER OF MEN AND RULER OF NATURE Matthew 8:18-27 Christ winnows men. Before any enter upon His service, He places before them the inevitable trials which they must meet, among which loneliness and h...

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

    The King passed down from the mountain and from teaching in order that He might bring the Kingdom nearer to His people, and give them examples of its benefits. What a wondrous application of His power...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (4) And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. (4) The true disciples of Christ must prepare themselves for all kinds of miseries....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 8:19._And a scribe approaching. _Two men are here presented to us by Matthew, and three by Luke, all of whom were prepared to become disciples of Christ, but who, having been prevented by a di...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _Now when Jesus saw great multitudes_ When Jesus did the things before mentioned he was in Capernaum, Matthew 8:5, but the multitude pressing him, he gave orders to pass over the sea of Galilee, other...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    FOLLOW THEE; in a special sense; become thy disciple and attendant. Persons sometimes express strong resolutions of becoming followers of Christ, without duly considering to what it will expose them,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND A CERTAIN SCRIBE CAME, AND SAID UNTO HIM, MASTER, I WILL FOLLOW THEE WHITHERSOEVER THOU GOEST....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    See Poole on "Matthew 8:20"....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO DISCIPLES ARE FACED UP WITH THE COST OF FOLLOWING JESUS (8:18-22). Jesus' command to His disciples to prepare to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 8:18) sparks off the need for s...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And there came a scribe, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.' Matthew in his Jewishness takes particular note of the fact that this would-be close disciple was a Scribe. (Fo...

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

    CHRONOLOGY. Matthew inserts this group of events here; Mark and Luke at a later point. We accept the chronology of Mark, who explicitly says that Jesus crossed the sea on the evening of the day the pa...

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

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

    Matthew 8:19. AND ONE WHO WAS A SCRIBE. ‘One' is emphatic; either one disciple (Matthew 8:21) who was a scribe, or ‘one scribe,' suggesting that it was are for one of that class to be among his follow...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jesus heals a leper, the centurion's servant and Peter's wife's mother. Professed disciples tested. Stilling of the waves. Casting-out demons at Gadara. CHARACTERS: Jesus, leper, centurion...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Matthew 8:2. _Behold, there came a leper and worshipped him._ After having preached his sermon, and discovered his doctrine, says Jerome, an opportunity presented itself of displaying miracles, thereb...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    A TEACHER OF THE LAW. The teachers of the Law rejected Christ, but this one was thinking about becoming a disciple. However, he had not realized it would "cost him something" to do so....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Master, I will follow Thee._ IMPETUOUS AND HESITATING DISCIPLESHIP I. The significance of Christ’s treatment of the impetuous scribe. He declares his determination to follow Christ, lead where He m...

  • The Gospels Compared

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 8 Ver. 2. _And, behold, a leper,_ &c. This same miracle is related by S. Mark (Mar 1:40), and by Luke (Luke 5:12). From a comparison of these it would seem to follow that the miracle was not p...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 8:18. TO DEPART.—Thus Jesus sought repose, and gave to the people time to bear fruit from His teaching, and kindled their interest in Himself for the future (_Bengel_). Matth...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MATTHEW 8:1 MESSIAH'S WORK AS COMPLEMENTARY TO HIS TEACHING. We return in this section to matter which resembles that of Mark and Luke, and undoubtedly belongs to the Framework (_vide _I...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn to Matthew's gospel chapter eight. The fifth chapter of Matthew begins "And seeing the multitude, he went into a mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: And he open...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:20; Ezra 7:6; John 13:36; Luke 14:25; Luke 14:33;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    DISCIPLESHIP IN TRAINING Matthew 8:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Let us consider the insincerity of the multitude. The last study closed with the crowds pressing upon Christ that they might be dispossess...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Luke 9:57....

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