“ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. ”
But whereunto shall I liken ... - Christ proceeds to reprove the inconsistency and fickleness of that age of people. He says they were like children - nothing pleased them. He refers here to the...
John the Baptist ( Luke 7:18-35 ). In place of Mk.'s narrative of John, deferred to ch. 14, Mt. gives material from Q. Matthew 11:2-6 . John's Perplexity. It is a question whether doubt was su...
came. In the Greek this is the Figure of speech Hyperbaton (put out of its place by commencing the verse), causing the Figure of speech Anaphora (App-6). eating nor drinking. Supply the Ell...
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. For John came neither eating nor drinking - Leading a very austere and mortified life: and yet, he did not receive him. A sin...
For John came neither eating, &c.— Our Lord justifies the application of the proverb in the preceding verse to the Pharisees, by observing, that the divine Wisdom had tried every method proper...
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Disciples of the Baptist 1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started on their mission about five weeks before the second Passover of the ministry (28 a.d.) and were a...
He hath a devil. — The phrase was a common one, asserting at once the fact of insanity, and ascribing it to demoniacal possession as its cause. (Comp. John 7:20 ; John 8:48 .) This was the explan...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1-30 ; Matthew 12:1-50 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1-30 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's recor...
the Last of the Prophets Matthew 11:11-19 The least in a higher dispensation has great advantages over the greatest in a lower one. A child on a hill can see farther than a giant in the valley....
This picture of John is very full of pathos-from the high triumph of inspired preaching to the solitude and loneliness of a prison. John made as direct application to Jesus as his circumstances permi...
THE PORTRAIT OF AN AGE ‘Whereunto shall I liken this generation?… Wisdom is justified of her children?’ Matthew 11:16-19 The portrait of an age—that and nothing less is what is essayed in th...
For John came neither eating nor drinking ,.... This and the following verse are an explanation of the foregoing "parable"; and this shows, that John and his disciples are the persons that mourned,...
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. Ver. 18. For John came neither eating, &c. ] So froward men are and gobble up, that no preacher can please them. If h...
Whereunto shall I liken this generation That is, the men of this age? They are like those froward children, of whom their fellows complain that they will be pleased no way. Saying, We have piped u...
Throughout Israel now the Lord carries on an intensive teaching and preaching in their cities. John the Baptist hears of this in the prison, but he is deeply puzzled, for he sends two of his disciple...
Christ Reproaches Chorazin, c.. 16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, an...
See Poole on " Matthew 11:19 " .
Jesus Charges The People Of His Generation With Not Taking John's Or His Message Seriously, But Behaving Like Children At Play (11:16-19). The sudden change of subject here is very vivid. He has b...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 11:19 . Wisdom. —God regarded as the All-Wise. Justified. —Acquitted of folly. Children. —The Divinely wise. The spiritual recognise the wisdom of God both in the auster...
devil demon. ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 7:22 ).
Matthew 11:16-19 The Baptist and Christ. I. When John appeared to Israel, and made his voice heard from the wilderness, the stern reality of such a life struck all imaginations; the hope he held...
Matthew 11:1 . And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. Whatever he commanded, he himself did...
Matthew 11:3 . Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another. Brevity here is connected with obscurity. John could not doubt, after seeing the glory, and hearing the voice from heaven. T...
EXPOSITION Matthew 11:1 Matthew only. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end. The same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28 ; Matthew 13:53 ; Matthew 19:1 ; Matthew 26:1 . In all f...
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
1 Corinthians 9:27 ; 2 Kings 9:11 ; Acts 26:24 ; Hosea 9:7 ; Jeremiah 15:17 ; Jeremiah 16:8 ; Jeremiah 16:9 ; Jeremiah 29:26 ; John 10:20 ; John 7:20 ; John 8:48 ; Luke 1:15 ; Matthew 10...
John came neither eating nor drinking — In a rigorous austere way, like Elijah. And they say, He hath a devil — Is melancholy, from the influence of an evil spirit.