Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew 23:3; Romans 2:17-25; Titus 1:16
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...
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...
the second. Tischendorf reads "the other" (Greek. heteros, App-124.)
30. I, Sir. (35) This phrase is borrowed from the Hebrew language; for, when the Hebrews wish to offer their services, and to declare that...
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...
And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go , sir: and went not. I go, sir - This is all respect, complaisance, and...
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 sh...
And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. And he came to the second, and said likewise...
The Triumphal Entry. Cleansing of the Temple Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dic...
Parable of the Two Sons (peculiar to St. Matthew). The 'certain man' is God, and He is represented as a father, to set forth His impartial love to...
I go, sir. — The tone of outward respect, as contrasted with the rude refusal of the elder son, is eminently characteristic as representing the sur...
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...
Authority Which Silenced and Condemned Matthew 21:23-32 Our Lord always refused to gratify idle curiosity. When an earnest seeker for truth, 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 secre...
"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 d...
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 pi...
And he came to the second ,.... The Scribes and Pharisees, by the ministry of John the Baptist, Christ, and his apostles also: and said likewise ;...
And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go , sir: and went not. Ver. 30. I go, sir ] I, but when, sir? Stultu...
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 igno...
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...
The Parable of the Two Sons. 28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons;...
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Jesus Exposes the Hypocrisy Of The Religious Leaders By The Parable Of The Two Sons (21:28-32). Jesus now follows up His challenge concerning the...
“And he came to the second, and said the same. And he answered and said, ‘I go, sir', and went not.” The second son is full of expressions of willin...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 21:23 . The chief priests and the elders. —St. Mark and St. Luke add “the scribes,” thus including representatives of the...
Matthew 21:28-30 Promising without Doing. We promise to serve God; we do not perform; and that not from deliberate faithlessness in the particula...
Matthew 21:28-31 We must not lose sight of the fact that in this parable both the persons who were addressed were sons. And this is exactly our p...
Matthew 21:28-32 The Two Sons. In this parable there are two distinct warnings to two distinct classes, with corresponding encouragements attache...
Matthew 21:30 Swift Tongue, Slow Foot. I. The first characteristic of the swift tongue and slow foot is unbelief. "I go, sir." How admirably this...
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, B...
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,...
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 furnish...
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...
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 vi...
And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir; and went not.
He answered, I go, sir: but went not — Just so did the scribes and Pharisees: they professed the greatest readiness and zeal in the service of God:...
30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.