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Verse Matthew 12:7. _I WILL HAVE MERCY, C._] See this explained,
Matthew 9:13. There are _four_ ways in which _positive laws_ may cease
to oblige.
First, by the natural law of _necessity_.
Secondly,...
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ONE GREATER THAN THE TEMPLE - Here the Saviour refers to himself, and
to his own dignity and power. “I have power over the laws; I can
grant to my disciples a dispensation from those laws. An act whic...
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9. THE REJECTION CONSUMMATED AND THE BROKEN RELATIONSHIP.
CHAPTER 12
1. The Hungry Disciples and the Accusing Pharisees. (Matthew 12:1 .)
2. The Man with the Withered Hand Healed.(Matthew 12:10 .) 3...
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SABBATH OBSERVANCE (Mark 2:23 *, Luke 6:1). The incident shows that
the disciples were learning their Master's teaching. Deuteronomy 23:25
allowed the practice, but the Rabbinical objection to it on t...
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BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT THIS MEANETH.
They ought to have known, for they professed to be interpreters of the
law, but in their slavery to forms and traditions, they had been blind
to the spirit of t...
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CRISIS (Matthew 12:1-50)
In Matthew 12:1-50 we read the history of a series of crucial events
in the life of Jesus. In every man's life there are decisive moments,
times and events on which the whole...
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At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day. His
disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck the ears of corn and to
eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, ...
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IF, &C. Implying that it was not the fact. See App-118. Not the same
condition as in verses: Matthew 12:11; Matthew 12:26; Matthew 12:27;...
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_I will have mercy, and not sacrifice_ Quoted a second time, SEE ch.
Matthew 9:13. There is something more binding than the Law, and that
is the principle which underlies the Law. The Law rightly unde...
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Matthew 12:1-13. The Observance of the Sabbath
1. The disciples pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath. 2. A man with a
withered hand cured on the Sabbath.
St Mark 2:23-28; Mark 3:1-5; St...
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7. ἔλεος for ἔλεον; in these instances the _textus
receptus_ represents an unauthorised change to an easier construction
or a more usual grammatical form.
7. ΕἸ ΔῈ ἘΓΝΏΚΕΙΤΕ. This form of the conditi...
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THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH...
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Ver 1. At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn;
and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of
corn, and to eat. 2. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto...
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_THE PHARISEES REJECTED THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:1-21_ : The Bible is
plain in showing that it is wrong to fail to be as strict as God
intents. But, the Bible also shows that it is wrong to be stricter
t...
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ΕΙ если. С ΆΝ используется как _conj._,
противоречащее факту,
ΈΓΝΏΚΕΙΤΕ _plperf. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097)
знать, понимать. Plperf. в _conj._ относится к
прошедшему времени. Об использовании
_plp...
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I WILL HAVE MERCY, &C.— _I delight in mercy_ (so θελειν
signifies, ch. Matthew 27:43.), _more than sacrifice;_ for this is the
Hebrew form of comparison. See the note on ch. Matthew 9:13. Works of
mer...
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SECTION 26
JESUS ANSWERS CHARGES OF SABBATH BREAKING
(Parallels: Mark 2:23 to Mark 3:6; Luke 6:1-11)
TEXT: 12:1-14
I. SUSPICION
1.
At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grain-f...
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But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT [THIS] MEANETH, I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT
SACRIFICE...
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27 See Joh_3:35; Joh_17:2.
28 It is this God-consciousness, this recognition of His hand in all
things, and more especially in that which is opposed to His apparent
will, which gives His slaves heart'...
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12:7 is. (e-7) See ch. 9.13....
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PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH. BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST
1-8. Plucking the corn on the sabbath (Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1). This
chapter begins the period of active conflict with the Pharisees. It is...
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I WILL HAVE MERCY] Hosea 6:6, quoted also Matthew 9:13. Here the
meaning is that God is satisfied if men keep the sabbath in the right
spirit, i.e. as a day of holy rest. He does not demand obedience...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 12
QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO USE GOD’S REST DAY 12:1-14
Matthew gives two examples of the ‘*yoke’ of the *Jewish law:
1. The *disciples...
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I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE. — Yet a third argument follows
from the Old Testament (Hosea 6:6). The teachers or interpreters of
the Law had failed to catch the meaning of the simplest utteran...
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Chapter 10
The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1
I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1
HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our
Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
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THE RIGHT USE OF THE SABBATH
Matthew 12:1-14
The Pharisees had introduced a large number of minute and absurd
restrictions on Sabbath observance; so our Lord set Himself to recover
the day of rest fo...
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This chapter chronicles direct attacks on Christ. The first was petty
and foolish. It is on the question of the Sabbath. The Master gives to
His people the true conception of the sanctity of the Sabba...
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_Mercy, and not sacrifice. (Osee vi. 6.) The meaning of this is, if
you then approve of the mercy of the high priest, who refreshed the
famished fugitive David, why do you condemn my disciples? (St.
J...
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CHAPTER 14
JESUS RETURNS TO GALILEE
Matthew 12:1-18; Mark 2:23-28, and Luke 6:1-5. We find that our Lord
spent but two weeks at Jerusalem during this tour, preaching and
working miracles all the time...
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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...
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7._But if you knew _This _Third _argument is also mentioned by Matthew
alone. Christ conveys an indirect reproof to the Pharisees, for not
considering why ceremonies were appointed, and to what object...
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At length the rejection of the nation, in consequence of their
contempt of the Lord, is plainly shewn, as well as the cessation of
all His relations with them as such, in order to bring out on God's
p...
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BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT THIS MEANETH, c,] The passage of Scripture in
Hosea 6:6
I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE of the sense of which,
SEE GILL "MT 9:13"
ye would not have condemned the guilt...
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But if ye had known what _this_ meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Ver. 7. _But if ye had known_] And it was a foul shame for them not
to know....
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_But if ye had known what that meaneth_ If ye had known the intent of
that scripture, Hosea 6:6, _I will have mercy_, &c. That is, I always
prefer acts of mercy before matters of positive institution,...
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MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE; see note on chap Matthew 9:13. The fourth
commandment always allowed men on the Sabbath-day to relieve the
distressed, to feed the hungry, and to perform all those labors whi...
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The application of the argument:...
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BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT THIS MEANETH, I WILL HAVE MERCY AND NOT
SACRIFICE, YE WOULD NOT HAVE CONDEMNED THE GUILTLESS....
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We have seen that Matthew groups events with a dispensational end in
view, and chapter 12 shows a building up on Israel's part to a state
of utter rejection of their Messiah. The expression "at that t...
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1-8 Being in the corn-fields, the disciples began to pluck the ears
of corn: the law of God allowed it, Deuteronomy 23:25. This was
slender provision for Christ and his disciples; but they were conte...
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Neither Mark nor Luke have this argument. Our Lord yet goeth on taxing
these great doctors of ignorance. The text he quotes is HOSEA 6:6; we
met with it before quoted by our Saviour, MATTHEW 9:13. The...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
Besides, our Lord also exhorted them to the same effect, when He said,
"But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice, ye would not h...
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Matthew 12:7 But G1161 if G1487 known G1097 (G5715) what G5101 means
G2076 (G5748) desire G2309 ...
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CONTROVERSY WITH THE PHARISEES ABOUT THE SABBATH. THE SON OF MAN IS
LORD OF THE SABBATH (12:1-16).
In the last passage Matthew has depicted words of Jesus concerning the
heavy burden of the Law and th...
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THE INCIDENT IN THE GRAINFIELDS (12:1-8).
The first incident arises when Jesus and His disciples are walking
through some grainfields. Being hungry they pluck some of the grain,
and eat it. This is t...
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“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not
sacrifice', you would not have condemned the guiltless.”
Having laid His claim Jesus now appeals to the conscience. Had the
Pharisees kn...
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CHRONOLOGY. Mark and Luke place the events of this section just before
the _choice of the Twelve_, which occurred during our Lord's
retirement. The season of the year may have been April, at which tim...
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Matthew 12:7. BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN. They ought to have known,
professing to interpret the Old Testament.
I WILL HAVE MERCY, etc. Quoted before (chap. Matthew 9:13), from
Hosea 6:6. Our Lord properly c...
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THE GUILTLESS
(τους αναιτιους). So in verse Matthew 12:5. Common in
ancient Greek. No real ground against, it means αν + αιτιος.
Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6 here as he did in Matthew 9:13. A pertinent
pr...
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CONTENTS: Jesus announces Himself Lord of Sabbath, Controversy with
Pharisees. Healing of the withered hand. A demoniac healed. The
unpardonable sin. Death and resurrection foretold. Deficiency of
sel...
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Matthew 12:2. _Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon
the sabbath- day._ The pharisees did not find fault with eating a few
ears of barley in their hunger, while others enjoyed their fea...
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THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. They said that they obeyed the scriptures. Jesus
argues that kindness to the hungry pleases God more than the animal
sacrifices on the altar in the temple....
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_I will have mercy, and not sacrifice._
MERCY, NOT SACRIFICE
When St. Spyridion was about eighty years old, it happened that a
traveller came to visit him at one of those periods of the year when
it...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:7 “I DESIRE MERCY, AND NOT
SACRIFICE.” See note on 9:13....
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THE DISCIPLES PICK WHEAT ON THE SABBATH MATTHEW 12:1-8; MARK 2:23-28;
LUKE 6:1-5; MATTHEW 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day
throug
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CHAPTER XII.
_At that time Jesus went through the corn fields_ (Through the crops
of corn becoming white, or ripe), &c. Luke adds that this Sabbath was
the first from the second (_Vulg_.); which...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 12:1. PLUCK THE EARS OF CORN.—See Deuteronomy 23:25.
Matthew 12:3. WHAT DAVID DID.—David’s action was not an apparent
contravention of the Sabbath-law, but an apparent contra...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 12:1
The opposition that our Lord met with
(1) from his enemies (Matthew 12:1);
(2) from his relations (Matthew 12:46-4
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Shall we turn to the twelfth chapter of the gospel of Matthew?
Jesus was not one to follow traditions. He's already pointed out in
the Sermon on the Mount, that through their interpretation of the law...
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Acts 13:27; Hosea 6:6; Isaiah 1:11; James 5:6; Job 32:3;...
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I will have mercy and not sacrifice — That is, when they interfere
with each other, I always prefer acts of mercy, before matters of
positive institution: yea, before all ceremonial institutions
whate...
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Learn hence, That the law of mercy is much more excellent than the law
of ceremonies; and where both cannot be observed, the less must give
place to the greater. God never intended that the ceremonies...