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Ask a QuestionWhen Jesus came into the coasts--"the parts," that is, the territory or region. In Mark (Mr 8:27) it is "the towns" or "villages." of Caesarea Philippi--It lay at the foot of Mount Lebanon, near...
The book of the generation--an expression purely Jewish; meaning, "table of the genealogy." In Ge 5:1 the same expression occurs in this sense. We have here, then, the title, not of this whole...
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn--after the Sabbath, as it grew toward daylight. toward the first day of the week--Luke (Lu 24:1) has it, "very early in the morning"--properly, "at...
(Compare Pr 2:18, 19; 7:27).
(De 27:26; Ga 3:10).
(Job 21:18; 15:2; Ps 58:9).
On the terms (Ps 27:9; 74:1; 77:7).
(Compare Ps 37:3, 9, 22, 27).
(Jer 52:17, 20, 21).
(Jer 2:27; 7:13).
The suburbs--the buildings of Tyre on the adjoining continent.
isles--seacoasts.
(Compare Pr 20:16; 22:3).
lie--(Jer 14:14).
hiss--with astonishment; as in 1Ki 9:8.
(Ps 66:18).
(Ex 27:3).
against thee--rather, "concerning thee."
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying--Matthew (Mt 20:20) says their "mother came to Him with her sons, worshipping Him and desiring," &c. (Compare Mt 27:56, with Mr15:40)....
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews?--From this it would seem they were not themselves Jews. (Compare the language of the Roman governor, Joh 18:33, and of the Roman soldiers, Mt...
In the greatest dangers. in this--that is, then, in such extremity.
A purely absolute monarchy (Jer 27:7).
And then will I profess unto them--or, openly proclaim--tearing off the mask. I never knew you--What they claimed--intimacy with Christ--is just what He repudiates, and with a certain scornful...
For as Jonas was--"a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation" (Lu 11:30). For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly--(Jon 1:17). so shall...
Watch therefore; for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh--This, the moral or practical lesson of the whole parable, needs no comment. This parable, while closely...
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned--The condemnation, even though not unexpected, might well fill him with horror. But perhaps this unhappy man expected, that,...
Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver--Never, remarks Bengel, will you find the heads of the people calling Jesus by His own name. And yet here there is betrayed a certain uneasiness, which...
And immediately he arose, took up the bed--"Sweet saying!" says Bengel: "The bed had borne the man: now the man bore the bed." and went forth before them all--proclaiming by that act to the...
But go ye and learn what that meaneth--(Ho 6:6), I will have mercy, and not sacrifice--that is, the one rather than the other. "Sacrifice," the chief part of the ceremonial law, is here put for a...
And she shall bring forth a son--Observe, it is not said, "she shall bear thee a son," as was said to Zacharias of his wife Elizabeth (Lu 1:13). and thou--as his legal father. shalt call his name...