Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 12:14
(3) Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
(3) How far and in what aspect we may give place to the unbridled rage of the wicked.
(3) Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
(3) How far and in what aspect we may give place to the unbridled rage of the wicked.
Verse Matthew 12:14. _HELD A COUNCIL AGAINST HIM_] Nothing sooner leads to utter blindness, and hardness of heart, than _envy_. There are many who abandon themselves to _pleasure-taking_ and _debauche...
This account is found also in Mark 3:6. Matthew 12:14 THE PHARISEES ... HELD A COUNCIL ... - Mark adds that the Herodians also took a part in this plot. They were probably a “political” party attache...
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...
THE SABBATH HEALING WHICH DETERMINED PHARISAIC HOSTILITY (Mark 3:1 *, Luke 6:6). Mt. makes the Pharisees utter their question, and Jesus to reply, in words found in another connexion in Lk. (Luke 14:5...
THEN THE PHARISEES... HELD. COUNCIL... DESTROY HIM. These hypocrites, who, in their superstitious zeal for the Sabbath, were unwilling that our Lord should work. cure on that day, had no scruple whate...
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...
He left there and went into their synagogue. And, look you, there was a man there with a withered hand. So they asked him, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" They asked this question in order t...
THEN. But. HELD. COUNCIL. Occurs only in Matthew 22:15; Matthew 27:1; Matthew 27:7; Matthew 28:12.
The Pharisees plot against Jesus, who retires Mark 3:6-12; Luke 6:11-12. 14. _held a council against him_ St Mark adds that the Herodians joined the Pharisees. _how they might destroy him_ By argum...
THE PHARISEES PLOT AGAINST JESUS, WHO RETIRES Mark 3:6-12; Luke 6:11-12...
ΣΥΜΒΟΎΛΙΟΝ ἜΛΑΒΟΝ ΚΑΤʼ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. St Mark adds that the Herodians joined the Pharisees. ὍΠΩΣ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ�. This sequence of the subjunctive on the historic tenses is the established usage in Hellenistic Gree...
Ver 14. Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. 15. But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he...
_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...
ΈΞΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить, ΣΥΜΒΟΎΛΙΟΝ (G4824) план, намерение (совещание и его результат, BAGD). ΈΛΑΒΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать, ΌΠΩΣ (G37...
HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM— This is the first time that mention is made of a design onour Saviour's life. It is natural to think that the historian would acquaint us of their concurring in the design,...
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...
Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. THEN THE PHARISEES WENT OUT, AND HELD A COUNCIL AGAINST HIM, HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM. This is the first e...
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'...
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...
ANOTHER SABBATH CONTROVERSY. THE MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND (Mark 3:1; Luke 6:6). The sequence is the same in all the evangelists. St. Luke mentions that this took place on another sabbath....
HELD A COUNCIL] RV 'took counsel.' St. Mark adds, 'with the Herodians.' 15-17. Cp. Mark 3:7, where a fuller account is given. St. Mark mentions that the multitudes came from Idumæa, and from beyond Jo...
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...
HELD A COUNCIL AGAINST HIM. — If, as seems probable, these Pharisees included those who had come from Jerusalem, the deliberation was of more importance in its bearing on our Lord’s future work than i...
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'...
ἐξελθόντες : overawed for the moment, the Pharisaic witnesses of the miracle soon recovered themselves, and went out of the synagogue with hostile intent. συμβούλιον ἔλαβον, consulted together = συμβο...
_The issue: the hand cured, and Pharisaic ill-will deepened_....
_A Sabbath cure_ (Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11): not necessarily happening immediately after. Matthew and Luke follow Mark's order, which is topical, not historical; another instance of collision as to Sab...
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...
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 STRAY SHEEP Matthew 12:14. “What seems to you? If there may be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them may stray away, does he not, leaving the ninety and nine, going into the mountains, seek...
THE WITHERED HAND Matthew 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; and Luke 6:6-11. Our Lord and His disciples have again reached Galilee, their native land. Luke notifies us that this incident transpired on the Sabbath...
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...
"Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. (15) But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed...
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...
_THE GENTLENESS OF CHRIST_ ‘Then the Pharisees went out … till He send forth judgment unto victory.’ Matthew 12:14 There are numbers of people who want far less words of reproof than words of sympa...
Matthew 12:14._Then the Pharisees took counsel. _How obstinate is the rage which drives the wicked to oppose God! Even after having been convinced, they pour out their venom more and more. It is truly...
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...
THEN THE PHARISEES WENT OUT,.... Of the synagogue, being, as Luke says, filled with madness, at the unanswerableness of his arguments; and because of the violation of the sabbath, as they thought; and...
Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. Ver. 14. _How they might destroy him_] All envy is bloody. Men wish him out of the world whom they cannot abid...
_Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him_ They were so incensed at the affront which they imagined they had received, in our Lord's neglecting their censure, and intimating his kno...
THE ENMITY OF THE PHARISEES AND CHRIST'S ANSWER. THEN THE PHARISEES WENT OUT AND HELD A COUNCIL AGAINST HIM, HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM. Overawed for the moment, and unable to formulate an answer, the...
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...
HELD A COUNSEL: Or, took counsel...
14-21 The Pharisees took counsel to find some accusation, that Jesus might be condemned to death. Aware of their design, as his time was not come, he retired from that place. Face does not more exact...
Luke saith, _they were filled with madness, and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus._ Mark saith, _they straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destro...
Matthew 12:14 Then G1161 Pharisees G5330 out G1831 (G5631) plotted G2983 (G5627) G4824 against G2596 Him...
‘But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.' But the Pharisees were furious. Jesus was flouting their regulations, and not only so, but He had held them up t...
THE MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND (12:9-16). Having described the rejection of Himself and John by the general people, the rejection of His Messianic signs by the local towns, and the hostility of the P...
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...
Matthew 12:14. THEN THE PHARISEES TOOK COUNSEL AGAINST HIM. ‘Held a council' is almost too strong; it was scarcely a formal meeting of the local tribunal, although the consultation was attended by its...
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...
TOOK COUNSEL AGAINST HIM (συμβουλιον ελαβον κατ' αυτου). An imitation of the Latin _concilium capere_ and found in papyri of the second century A.D. (Deissmann, _Bible Studies_, p. 238.) This incide...
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...
MADE PLANS AGAINST JESUS TO KILL HIM. Mark says they met with some members of Herod's party (_see_ Mark 3:6). These people made a "show" of being very religious, but were really enemies of God....
_That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet: _ ISAIAH’S DESCRIPTION OF CHRIST I. When our Lord knew that the Pharisees were plotting His destruction, it is saw that he withdrew...
_The men of Nineveh shall rise in Judgment._ THE GREATER THAN JONAS I. To show that sufficient cause in the different circumstances of the two, why the repentant ninevites should be witnesses against...
JESUS HEALS A MAN'S HAND ON THE SABBATH MATTHEW 12:9-14; MARK 3:1-6; LUKE 6:6-11; MATTHEW 12:9 And when he was departed thence, he went into the
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 12:18. JUDGMENT.—The idea embodied in the prediction is that it would be the aim of the Messiah, as universal Judge, to put all things to rights among all nations. The judicia...
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 10:39; John 11:53; John 11:57; John 5:18; Luke 6:11;...