Matthew 12:23. The effect of such a remarkable miracle on the people was astonishment, and they asked: Is this the Son of David? The original indicates an expectation or hope of a negative answer (see next verse); so that we must not attribute to the multitude any strong spiritual conviction.
Verse Matthew 12:23. _IS NOT THIS THE SON OF DAVID?_] Is not this the true Messiah? Do not these miracles sufficiently prove it? See Isaiah 35:5....
THEN WAS BROUGHT UNTO HIM ONE POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL - See the notes at Matthew 4:24. The same account, substantially, is found in Mark 3:22, and Luke 11:14....
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...
JESUS-' ANSWER TO THE VERDICT OF THE JERUSALEM SCRIBES, AND THE INTERVENTION OF HIS FAMILY (Mark 3:20 *, Luke 11:14; Luke 11:29; Luke 12:10;...
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...
Then there was brought to him a man possessed by a devil, blind and dumb; and he cured him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw. The crowds were beside themselves with amazement. "Surely, they said, "t...
PEOPLE. multitude. IS NOT THIS... ? The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "Is This? ". May not This be? Since 1638 it reads "Is not This". THE SON OF DAVID. The third of nine occurrences...
Cure of a Blind and Dumb Man Luke 11:14-16....
22, 23. CURE OF A MAN WHO WAS BLIND AND DUMB Luke 11:14-16 St Luke omits to mention that the man was blind as well as dumb....
ΜΉΤΙ ΟὟΤΌΣ ἘΣΤΙΝ Ὁ ΥἹῸΣ ΔΑΥΕΊΣ; This form of interrogation implies a negative answer. Those who can scarcely hope for an affirmative reply, naturally give a negative cast to their question. ‘Can this...
VER 22. THEN WAS BROUGHT UNTO HIM ONE POSSESSED WITH A DEVIL, BLIND AND DUMB: AND HE HEALED HIM, INSOMUCH THAT THE BLIND AND DUMB BOTH SPAKE AND SAW. 23. AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE AMAZED, AND SAID, IS N...
_THE WARNING FROM THE SAVIOR MATTHEW 12:22-37:_ After Jesus healed the demon-possessed man the multitude asked, "could this be the Son of David?" (Matthew 12:23) The Pharisees spoke scornfully of the...
ΈΞΊΣΤΑΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΞΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G1839) быть вне себя от изумления. _Impf._ ярко обрисовывает ситуацию: "Они были почти вне себя от возбуждения" (RWP). ΈΛΕΓΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ...
DISCOURSE: 1353 THE BLIND AND DUMB DΖMONIAC HEALED Matthew 12:22. _Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake...
Section 28 JESUS ANSWERS THE CHARGE OF BEING IN LEAGUE WITH SATAN (Parallel: Mark 3:19-30) TEXT: 12:22-37 22. Then was brought unto him one possessed with a demon, blind and dumb: and he healed hi...
And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE AMAZED, AND SAID, IS NOT THIS THE SON OF DAVID? [ Meeti (G3385) houtos (G3778) estin (G1510) ho...
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'...
THE SON OF DAVID] the popular title of the Messiah: Matthew 9:27; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 20:30; Matthew 21:9;...
THE PHARISEES ACCUSE JESUS OF BEING IN LEAGUE WITH BEELZEBUB (Mark 3:22 cp. Luke 11:17; Matthew 9:32). The ridiculous charge of the Pharisees is strong evidence of the genuineness of Christ's miracles...
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...
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...
IS NOT THIS THE SON OF DAVID? — The people use (as the blind man had done in Matthew 9:27) the most popular of all the synonyms of the Christ....
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'...
_Demoniac healed and Pharisaic calumny repelled_ (Mark 3:22-30; Luke 11:14-23 _cf._ Matthew 9:32-34). The healing of a blind and dumb demoniac has its place here not for its own sake, as a miracle, bu...
ἐξίσταντο : not implying anything exceptionally remarkable in the cure; a standing phrase (in Mark at least) for the impression made on the people. They never got to be familiar with Christ's wonderfu...
τυφλὸς καὶ κωφός, blind as well as dumb. The demoniac in Matthew 9:32 dumb only. But dumbness here also is the main feature; hence in last clause κωφὸν only, and λαλεῖν before βλέπειν. ὥστε with infin...
THE TESTIMONY OF DEEDS OF MERCY Matthew 12:15-23 A _reed_ is not of much account. You may see hundreds of them encircling a stagnant pond and bending before the breeze. A _bruised reed_ is still more...
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...
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN (BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST) Mark 3:20-30; Matthew 12:22-37; & Luke 11:14-23. Mark: “And they come into the house; and again a multitude comes together, so that they are not
"Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. (23) And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not th...
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...
23._And all the people were astonished. _Hence we infer, that there was a visible display of the power of God, which drew upon him the admiration of the great body of the people, who were not at all a...
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...
AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE AMAZED,.... At the cure; it was such an instance of divine power, and so glaring a proof, that the person who wrought it was more than a man, and must be the Messiah. This is t...
And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? Ver. 23. _And all the people were amazed_] Admiration bred philosophy, saith the heathen. It bred superstition, saith the Scrip...
_Then was brought unto him_ Namely, By the person's friends, _one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb_ Many, no doubt, supposed these defects to be merely natural: but the Spirit of God saw otherwi...
AND ALL THE PEOPLE WERE AMAZED AND SAID, IS NOT THIS THE SON OF DAVID? Their minds had not yet been saturated with the poison of enmity toward Christ; they were frankly overwhelmed by this new evidenc...
A demoniac healed:...
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...
22-30 A soul under Satan's power, and led captive by him, is blind in the things of God, and dumb at the throne of grace; sees nothing, and says nothing to the purpose. Satan blinds the eyes by unbel...
This is the first conviction we meet with, from the miracles wrought by our Saviour, that he was the Messiah, unless that of the two blind men, mentioned MATTHEW 9:27; and their faith in it appears bu...
Matthew 12:23 And G2532 all G3956 multitudes G3793 amazed G1839 (G5710) and G2532 said G3004 (G5707) this...
THE HOLY SPIRIT TRIUMPHS OVER THE EVIL SPIRIT WORLD ESTABLISHING THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD FOR ALL WHO WILL HEAR AND RESPOND (12:22-32). Following on this emphasis on the coming of the Servant of YHWH wi...
‘And all the crowds were amazed, and said, “Can this be the son of David?” When the crowds saw it their thoughts were half positive. They ‘saw', at least to some extent, and testified well. They were...
IS THIS THE SON OF DAVID? (μητ ουτος εστιν ο υιος Δαυειδ?). The form of the question expects the answer "no," but they put it so because of the Pharisaic hostility towards Jesus. The multitudes "we...
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...
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...
COULD HE BE THE SON OF DAVID? That is, the Messiah-King who was expected to come (Isaiah 11:10; 2 Samuel 23:1-5)....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 12:23 CAN THIS BE THE SON OF DAVID? See note on 9:27. The people thought of David as a warrior king. It was difficult for them to understand that this gentle healer could indee...
1-50 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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 12:23. IS NOT THIS THE SON OF DAVID?—See “The Parallel New Testament” (1882). The “not” is omitted in both columns. It “was wisely omitted by King James’ translators. It is no...
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
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...
John 4:29; John 7:40; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 15:30; Matthew 15:31;...
Is not this the son of David — That is, the Messiah....