Barjona
Son of Jonas.
See also Mark 8:27-29 , and Luke 9:18-20 . Cesarea Philippi - There were two cities in Judea called Caesarea. One was situated on the borders...
(4) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for (k) flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father wh...
The Great Confession and the First View of the Cross ( Mark 8:27-38 *, Luke 9:18-27 ). Omitting the cure of the blind man (but cf. Matthew 9:27...
Blessed . Happy. See note on Matthew 5:3 . Simon Bar-jona . Simon, son of Jonah. The Lord uses his human name and parentage in contrast with the...
17. Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona. As this is life eternal, to know the only true God, and him whom he hath sent, Jesus Christ, ( Jo...
DISCOURSE: 1374 PETER’S CONFESSION OF CHRIST REWARDED Matthew 16:15-19 . He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered...
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is i...
Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, &c.— Bar-jona is the Son of Jona. Some authors suppose, that John and Jona are one and the same. Fle...
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is...
St. Peter's great Confession 1-4. A sign from heaven demanded ( Mark 8:11 cp. Luke 11:16 : see on Matthew 12:38 ).
St. Peter's confession ( Mark 8:27 ; Luke 9:18 ). Jesus now undertook another distant excursion, partly to escape the hostility of the Pharisees (...
Simon Barjona ] i.e. Simon, son of Jonah. The full name harmonises with the solemnity of the occasion and the emotion of the speaker. In John 1:42...
Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona. — Looking to the reality of our Lord’s human nature, its capacity for wonder ( Mark 6:6 ; Luke 7:9 ), anger ( Ma...
Chapter 13 The New Departure (Founding of the Church.) - Matthew 16:13-28 ; Matthew 17:1-21 THIS conversation at Caesarea Philippi is universall...
“The Son of the Living God” Matthew 16:13-20 The shadows of Calvary were beginning to gather and the Lord desired to prepare His friends for al...
What a very wonderful fact in the life and ministry of Jesus is His power of suppressing the marvelous powers He possessed. He never used them save i...
"When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? (14) And they said,...
And Jesus answered and said unto him ,.... Not waiting for any other declaration from them; but taking this to be the sense of them all, he said,...
Jesus answered, Blessed [or happy , as μακαριος signifies] art thou, Simon Bar-jona , (or the son of Jonas,) namely, in being brought thus firmly...
The enmity against the true Messiah increases now to the point of Pharisee's and Sadducee's (usually hostile to each other) conspiring together to te...
Christ's Conference with His Disciples. 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæs...
Our Lord appeareth here to be mightily pleased with this confession of Peter and the rest of his disciples, (for we shall observe in the Gospel, that...
Peter Openly Confesses That Jesus Is The Messiah (16:13-20). In Matthew 11:25-27 Jesus had spoken of the fact it was His Father who revealed thi...
‘And Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father who is in heave...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 16:13 . Coasts. — Parts (R.V.). I.e . neighbourhood. There were various inhabited places in the locality (see Mark 8:2...
Matthew 16:15-17 , Matthew 16:21 Peter's Confession of Faith, and Christ's Prediction of His Passion. I. At the end of the second year of His...
Matthew 16:1 . The pharisees also with the sadducees came, soliciting a sign from heaven: Matthew 12:38 . This was the second time, and they re...
Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am? Confession and cross-bearing I. The confession. 1. The substance of the confession. 2. The so...
EXPOSITION Matthew 16:1-40 The Pharisees and Sadducees desire a sign. ( Mark 8:11-41 .) Matthew 16:1 The Pharisees also with th...
The confession:
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which is in...
1 Corinthians 2:9-12 ; 1 John 4:15 ; 1 John 5:20 ; 1 Peter 1:3-5 ; 1 Peter 5:1 ; Colossians 1:26 ; Colossians 1:27 ; Ephesians 1:17 ; Ephesi...
Flesh and blood — That is, thy own reason, or any natural power whatsoever.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him,Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.