devil
demon.
( See Scofield) - (Matthew 7:22).
But whereunto shall I liken ... - Christ proceeds to reprove the inconsistency and fickleness of that age of people. He says they were like child...
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...
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...
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 mort...
For John came neither eating, &c.— Our Lord justifies the application of the proverb in the preceding verse to the Pharisees, by observing, tha...
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 se...
The praise of John the Baptist ( Luke 7:24 ). Lest the purpose of the question of John, 'Art thou he that should come?' should be misunderstood, Je...
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. (Co...
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...
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...
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 dire...
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...
For John came neither eating nor drinking ,.... This and the following verse are an explanation of the foregoing "parable"; and this shows, that Joh...
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...
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 the...
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 i...
Christ Reproaches Chorazin, c.. 16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? I...
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 sud...
“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon'.” John lived a life of fasting and prayer. He drank no wine or strong dri...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 11:19 . Wisdom. —God regarded as the All-Wise. Justified. —Acquitted of folly. Children. —The Divinely wise. The spirit...
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...
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 the...
Matthew 11:1-3 . 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 t...
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 seei...
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 ; Matthe...
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
The direct application:
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 came neither eating nor drinking — In a rigorous austere way, like Elijah. And they say, He hath a devil — Is melancholy, from the influence o...
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.