Luke 12:24; Luke 6:9; Mark 3:4; Matthew 6:26
The account contained in these verses is recorded also in Mark 3:1-5 , and Luke 6:6-10 . Matthew 12:10 The very hairs of your head are all...
The Sabbath Healing which Determined Pharisaic Hostility ( Mark 3:1-6 *, Luke 6:6-11 ). Mt. makes the Pharisees utter their question, and Jesus t...
How much? Figure of speech Erotesis, for emphasis. App-6. well: i.e.. good deed.
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. How much then is a man better than a sheep? - Our...
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. How much then is a man better than a sheep...
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 begin...
Another sabbath controversy. The man with the withered hand ( Mark 3:1 ; Luke 6:6 ). The sequence is the same in all the evangelists. St. Luke men...
How much then ] a striking saying on the value of human life and health. The literal meaning does not exclude the more spiritual interpretation that...
Will he not lay hold on it? — As the reasoning takes the form of an argumentum ad hominem, it is clear that the act was regarded as a lawful one,...
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 Right Use of the Sabbath Matthew 12:1-14 The Pharisees had introduced a large number of minute and absurd restrictions on Sabbath observanc...
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 peop...
"And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: (10) And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, sa...
How much then is a man better than a sheep? .... As a rational creature must be better, and more excellent, than an irrational one, more care is to...
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. Ver. 12. It is lawful to do well ] Nay, it is...
And he said That he might show their unreasonableness, and confute them by their own practice: What man that shall have Or, Who, if he have bu...
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 re...
Christ Vindicates His Disciples. 1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day thr...
Ver. 11,12. Mark saith, Mark 3:3-5 , And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. And he saith unto them, is it lawful to...
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...
The Man With The Withered Hand (12:9-16). Having described the rejection of Himself and John by the general people, the rejection of His Messianic...
“How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! For which reason it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.” But is a man not more valuable tha...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 12:10 . Hand withered. —Shrunk and dried by some kind of atrophy. Is it lawful , etc.—Talmudical scholars tell us that i...
Matthew 12:12 There are few things in our Lord's teaching more interesting to notice than the enormous value which He puts upon man. Again and aga...
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 b...
How much then is a man better than a sheep! The dignity inherent in man’s nature This is not a question, but an exclamation, and it is so punc...
EXPOSITION Matthew 12:1-40 The opposition that our Lord met with (1) from his enemies ( Matthew 12:1-40 ); (2) from his relations (...
The application of these principles:
How much, then, is a man better than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.
It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day — To save a beast, much more a man.
12 Howmuch then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.