Matthew 12:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the Pharisees went out, and helda a council against him, how they might destroy him. ”

Matthew 12:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This account is found also in Mark 3:6-12 . 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...
Matthew 12:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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.
Matthew 12:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Sabbath Healing which Determined Pharisaic Hostility ( Mark 3:1-6 *, Luke 6:6-11 ). Mt. makes the Pharisees utter their question, and Jesus to reply, in words found in another connexion in Lk...
Matthew 12:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Then . But. held. council. Occurs only in Matthew 22:15 ; Matthew 27:1 ; Matthew 27:7 ; Matthew 28:12 . Mark 3:6 ; Mark 15:1 .
Matthew 12:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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. I...
Matthew 12:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. Held a council against him - Nothing sooner leads to utter blindness, and hardness of heart, than envy. There...
Matthew 12:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 desi...
Matthew 12:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 f...
Matthew 12:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew 12:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 tha...
Matthew 12:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Matthew 12:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 r...
Matthew 12:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 Sabb...
Matthew 12:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"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 heale...
Matthew 12:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE GENTLENESS OF CHRIST ‘Then the Pharisees went out … till He send forth judgment unto victory.’ Matthew 12:14-20 There are numbers of people who want far less words of reproof than words...
Matthew 12:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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;...
Matthew 12:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 a...
Matthew 12:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 kn...
Matthew 12:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew 12:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Malice of the Pharisees; Christ Withdraws Himself. 14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they mig...
Matthew 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 destr...
Matthew 12:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 an...
Matthew 12:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 j...
Matthew 12:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew 12:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 aga...
Matthew 12:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 12:1-40 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies ( Matthew 12:1-40 ); (2) from his relations ( Matthew 12:46-40 ); ,and the manner in which he de...
Matthew 12:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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,...
Matthew 12:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 10:39 ; John 11:53 ; John 11:57 ; John 5:18 ; Luke 6:11 ; Mark 3:6 ; Matthew 27:1

Matthew 12:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 12:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 12:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 12:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 12:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 12:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 12:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 12:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 12:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 12:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 12:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 12:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 12:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 12:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 12:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge