Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Matthew 14:1-12

Death of the Baptist (Mark 6:14-29; Luke 9:7-9). This section might with advantage have been given as a short chapter by itself, and a new start made with the feeding of the thousands which forms the first of a series of narratives together giving the story of the later Galilean ministry (Matthew 14:3 to Matthew 20:16). In this section (Matthew 14:1-12) Matthew still has his eye on Mark, the story of the fate of the Baptist being there the next after the section in reference to mother and brethren, excepting the mission of the Twelve (Mark 6:7-13) already related in Mt. (Matthew 10:5-15). Indeed from this point onwards Matthew follows Mark's order. In the foregoing part of this Gospel the parallelism between it and Mark has been disturbed by the desire of the evangelist to draw largely on his other source, the Logia, and introduce teaching materials bearing on all the topics suggested in his introductory sketch of Christ's early Galilean ministry: Didache, chaps. 5 7; apostolic mission (4:18. 22), chap. 10; Baptist (chap. 3), chap. 11; Pharisees (cha p. 3:7-9), c hap. 12; popular preaching (Matthew 4:23), chap. 3 Chaps. 8, 9 disturb the order by grouping incidents illustrating the healing ministry.

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