“ He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. ”
But what think ye? - A way of speaking designed to direct them particularly to what he was saying, that they might be self-convicted. Two sons - By those two sons our Lord intends to represen...
Matthew 21:28 to Matthew 22:14 . A trilogy of parables, perhaps from Q, enforcing the implicit teaching of the fig-tree incident. Matthew 21:28-32 . The Parable of the Two Sons. Mt. only. W...
I will not . I do not choose [to go]. repented. Greek. metamelomai.
DISCOURSE: 1387 THE TWO SONS Matthew 21:28-31 . But what think ye? A certain man had two sons: and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I wil...
He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. I will not - This is the general reply of every sinner to the invitations of God; and, in it, the Most High is treated without c...
But what think ye? A certain man, &c.— Because the chief priests and elders had said that they did not know whence John's baptism was, Jesus sharply rebuked them for disbelieving him: he convey...
He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. He answered and said, I will not. Trench notices the rudeness of this answer, and the total absence of any attempt to ex...
The Triumphal Entry. Cleansing of the Temple Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels'). Sabbath, Nis...
I will not. — The bold defiance of the answer answers to the rough recklessness of the classes (publicans and harlots) who were represented by the “first” of the two sons. Their whole life, up to t...
Matthew 22:1-46 ; Matthew 23:1-39 Chapter 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18-46 - Matthew 22:1-46 - Matthew 23:1-39 IT had been written that the Lord should suddenly come to His...
Authority Which Silenced and Condemned Matthew 21:23-32 Our Lord always refused to gratify idle curiosity. When an earnest seeker for truth, like Nicodemus, approached Him to know the way of li...
In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He reve...
"And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this aut...
THE TWO SONS ‘A certain man had two sons.… Whether of them twain did the will of his Father?’ Matthew 21:28-31 The originals of these two pictures are before us every day. An utterly godless...
He answered and said, I will not ,.... Which answer fitly expresses the language and practice of openly profane and unregenerate sinners, who will not come to Christ, that they may have life; nor wi...
He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. Ver. 29. I will not ] This is the language of most men's hearts, when pressed to duty: and, as occasion serves, they discove...
But what think ye As if he had said, You have evaded a direct answer to my question concerning the baptism of John, and have acknowledged your ignorance whence it was; but what think you of your ow...
It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples a...
The Parable of the Two Sons. 28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work t...
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“And he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard'. And he answered and said, ‘I will not', but afterward he changed his mind, and went.” The first son is called to work in hi...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 21:23 . The chief priests and the elders. —St. Mark and St. Luke add “the scribes,” thus including representatives of the three constituent elements of the Sanhedrin ( Plu...
repented Compare ( Luke 15:20 ); the other perfect illustration of repentance. ( See Scofield) - ( Acts 17:30 ).
Matthew 21:28-30 Promising without Doing. We promise to serve God; we do not perform; and that not from deliberate faithlessness in the particular case, but because it is our nature, our way not...
Matthew 21:23 . And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto, him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who...
Matthew 21:1 . When they were come to Bethphage. The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of gross...
A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day. Christian sonship and service I. Christian sonship furnishes the best possible motives for Christian service...
EXPOSITION Matthew 21:1-40 Triumphal entry into Jerusalem . ( Mark 11:1-41 ; Luke 19:29-42 ; John 12:12-43 .) Matthew 21:1 We have come to the last week of our Lord's earthly life,...
The Parable of the Two Sons. v. 28. But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.
1 Corinthians 6:11 ; 2 Chronicles 33:10-19 ; Acts 26:20 ; Daniel 4:34-37 ; Ephesians 2:1-13 ; Ephesians 4:17-19 ; Ezekiel 18:28-32 ; Isaiah 1:16-19 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Jeremiah 4...