Chapter 15:
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Matthew 15
Verse 1. Mark vii, 1.
Verse
2. The elders - The chief doctors or, teachers among the Jews.
Verse
3. They wash not their hands when they eat bread - Food in
general is termed bread in Hebrew; so that to eat bread is the same
as to make a meal.
Verse
4. honour thy father and mother - Which implies all such relief as
they stand in need of. Exod. xx, 12; xxi, 17.
Verse
5. It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by
me - That is, I have given, or at least, purpose to give to the
treasury of the temple, what you might otherwise have had from
me.
Verse
7. Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying - That is, the
description which Isaiah gave of your fathers, is exactly
applicable to you. The words therefore which were a description
of them, are a prophecy with regard to you.
Verse
8. Their heart is far from me - And without this all outward
worship is mere mockery of God. Isaiah xxix, 13.
Verse
9. Teaching the commandments of men - As equal with, nay,
superior to, those of God. What can be a more heinous sin?
Verse
13. Every plant - That is, every doctrine.
Verse
14. Let them alone - If they are indeed blind leaders of the blind;
let them alone: concern not yourselves about them: a plain
direction how to behave with regard to all such. Luke vi, 39.
Verse
17. Are ye also yet without understanding - How fair and candid
are the sacred historians? Never concealing or excusing their own
blemishes.
Verse
19. First evil thoughts - then murders - and the rest. Railings - The
Greek word includes all reviling, backbiting, and evil speaking.
Verse
21. Mark vii, 24.
Verse
22. A woman of Canaan - Canaan was also called Syrophenicia,
as lying between Syria properly so called, and Phenicia, by the sea
side. Cried to him - From afar, Thou Son of David - So she had
some knowledge of the promised Messiah.
Verse
23. He answered her not a word - He sometimes tries our faith in
like manner.
Verse
24. I am not sent - Not primarily; not yet.
Verse
25. Then came she - Into the house where he now was.
Verse
28. Thy faith - Thy reliance on the power and goodness of God.
Verse
29. The sea of Galilee - The Jews gave the name of seas to all
large lakes. This was a hundred furlongs long, and forty broad. It
was called also, the sea of Tiberias. It lay on the borders of
Galilee, and the city of Tiberias stood on its western shore. It was
likewise styled the lake of Gennesareth: perhaps a corruption of
Cinnereth, the name by which it was anciently called, Num.
xxxiv, 11. Mark vii, 31.
Verse
32. They continue with me now three days - It was now the third
day since they came. Mark viii, 1.
Verse
36. He gave thanks, or blessed the food - That is, he praised God
for it, and prayed for a blessing upon it.
Chapter 15:
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| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
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| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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