Malachi 4:5.
If ye will receive it - This is a mode of speaking implying that the doctrine which he was about to state was different from their common views;...
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...
if, &c. Assuming it as. fact. See App-118., as in verses: Matthew 11:21 ; Matthew 11:23 . will . are willing. Greek. thelo. receive . t...
14. And if you are willing to receive it He now explains more clearly in what manner John began to preach the kingdom of God It was in...
And if ye will receive it , this is Elias, which was for to come. This is Elias, which was for to come - This should always be written Elijah, that...
And if ye will receive it— There is nothing for the particle it in the original; therefore Dr. Heylin reads him; and if this be the proper supp...
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...
Jesus states, as again in Matthew 17:12 (cp. Luke 1:17 ), that John was the Elijah whom the Jews expected in accordance with Malachi 4:5 . He hin...
This is Elias. — The words of Malachi ( Malachi 4:5 ) had led men to expect the reappearance of the great Tishbite in person as the immediate precu...
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...
And if ye will receive it ,.... The words carry in them some suspicion of unbelief and hardness of heart, as though they would not receive it: howev...
And if ye will receive it , this is Elias, which was for to come. Ver. 14. This is Elias ] Not the Tishbite, but yet the same that Malachi foret...
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's Testimony of John. 7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the m...
God had told the Jews, Zechariah 4:5,6 , that he would send them Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:...
Jesus Expresses His Full Appreciation of John But Points Out That Now Something Even Greater Has Come, The Coming In Force Of The Kingly Rule of Hea...
“For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John, and if you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.” Again we have the em...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 11:7 . And as they departed , etc.—Dr. Plumptre holding that the Baptist himself was really in doubt, and sent his discip...
this is Elias ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 17:10 ). Also ( Matthew 17:12 ); ( Malachi 4:5 ).
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...
The conclusion:
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias which was for to come.
1 Corinthians 3:2 ; Ezekiel 2:5 ; Ezekiel 3:10 ; Ezekiel 3:11 ; John 1:21-23 ; John 16:12 ; Luke 1:17 ; Malachi 4:5 ; Mark 9:11-13 ; Matthe...
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.