Matthew 5:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. ”

Matthew 5:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Think not that I am come ... - Our Saviour was just entering on his work. It was important for him to state what he came to do. By his setting up to be a teacher in opposition to the scribes and...
Matthew 5:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(3) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but (g) to fulfil. (3) Christ did not come to bring any new way of righteousness and salvation into the wo...
Matthew 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Mt. here brings together material ( a) found scattered in Lk., ( b) peculiar to himself. Matthew 5:13-16 . Salt and Light. Good men are not only rewarded in the coming age, they help the world...
Matthew 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Think not, &c. . Deem not for. moment.. very necessary warning against making this mount another Sinai, and promulgating the laws of the kingdom proclaimed in and from Matthew 4:17 . I am com...
Matthew 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 . Think not. With regard to the perfection of his life, Christ might justly have maintained that he came to fulfill the law: but here he treats of doctrine, not of life. As h...
Matthew 5:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1297 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS CONFIRMED BY CHRIST Matthew 5:17-18 . Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I...
Matthew 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Think not that I am come to destroy the law - Do not imagine that I am come to violate the law κ...
Matthew 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Think not that I am come to destroy, &c.— Because the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ concerning happiness was contrary to that which the Jews were accustomed to hear, and which their preache...
Matthew 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Think not that I am come - `that I came' х eelthon ( G2064 )] To destroy the Law...
Matthew 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount John 5:1 to John 7:29 . The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20 . This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke ( Luke 6:20 ), that it is best to regard t...
Matthew 5:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Here a new section of the discourse begins, and is carried on to the end of the chapter. From the ideal picture of the life of the society which He came to found, our Lord passes to a protest against...
Matthew 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 5:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

New Heart Righteousness Matthew 5:17-26 Our Lord's mission was not to destroy but to construct. As noon fulfils dawn, and summer, spring; as manhood fulfils childhood and the perfect picture, t...
Matthew 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
Matthew 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets ,.... From verse 3 to the 10th inclusive, our Lord seems chiefly to respect the whole body of his true disciples and followers; from thenc...
Matthew 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Ver. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law ] As the Pharisees slandered him only t...
Matthew 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Think not that I am come to destroy To abrogate, annul , or repeal , (which seems to be the meaning of the word καταλυσαι, here,) the law or the prophets As your teachers do. It is manifest from...
Matthew 5:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
Matthew 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil....
Matthew 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There are so many adversaries, Jews, papists, Socinians, Anabaptists, Antinomians, &c., that make their advantages of this text, for the establishing their several errors, that it would require a...
Matthew 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets, I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. This dramatic statement can be viewed in a number of ways (although the list is by no means exhau...
Matthew 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
Matthew 5:17 - Scofield Reference Notes

I am not come to destroy Christ's relation to the law of Moses may be thus summarized: (1) He was made under the law ( Galatians 4:4 ). (2) He lived in perfect obedience to the law ( Joh...
Matthew 5:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:17 I. A fulfiller and a destroyer. Let us first clearly understand the difference. (1) Look at it in nature. What is the truly majestic power of the earth? Surely not destruction. There...
Matthew 5:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:1-2 . And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,- Our Saviour soon gather...
Matthew 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
Matthew 5:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

But to fulfil. The moral law eternal and immutable I. Negatively-that Christ did not come to destroy the law or the prophets. This may be illustrated as follows. 1. If the cause be immutably...
Matthew 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
Matthew 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Christ Confirms and Expounds the Law of Moses. Good works Jesus has just urged. He now proceeds to give a definition of good works from the Law. He makes clear His position with regard to the Law:...
Matthew 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 18:13 ; Acts 21:28 ; Acts 6:13 ; Colossians 2:16 ; Colossians 2:17 ; Galatians 3:17-24 ; Galatians 4:4 ; Galatians 4:5 ; Hebrews 10:3-12 ; Isaiah 42:21 ; John 8:5 ; Luke 16:17 ; Mat...
Matthew 5:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:1-42 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great...
Matthew 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Think not — Do not imagine, fear, hope, that I am come — Like your teachers, to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy — The moral law, but to fulfil — To establish, illustrate,...

Matthew 5:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 5:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 5:17 - Scofield Reference Notes

Matthew 5:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes