He never doubted that James and John would maintain their loyalty. "They that are first shall be last, and they that are last shall be first"( Matthew 19:30 ). The first is the defence of the disciples, grounded on analogies taken from that which had the sanction of God of old, as well as on His own glory now. iii. 20 Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. In gentleness, in sympathy, and in love, with never an impatient word, he seeks to lead them to the truth. Examine the Scripture, and you will see for yourselves. When they came they that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man [the denarius] a penny. In Matthew 12:1-50 we find not so much Jesus present and despised of men, as these men of Israel, the rejectors, in the presence of Jesus. (Matthew 20:22-23) Jesus answers James and John: when you ask for a place of special status, do you know what you ask for? And the same day, when the even was come, He saith unto them, let us pass over unto the other side. Matthew 20:16New International Version. (v) These two blind men were grateful. & Sanhedrim, fol. is a series of one-year devotional guides through each gospel, using one short scripture passage each day and following the Gospel in sequential order. Thus many are called by the preaching of the Gospel, but few are found who use their advantages in such a way as to become extensively useful in the Church-and many in the Church militant behave so ill as never to be admitted into the Church triumphant. Note, First, The church is God's vineyard; it is of his planting, watering, and fencing; and the fruits of it must be to his honour and praise. He makes some more useful than others, without regard to the time which they serve, and he will reward them accordingly. ), NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story, NIV, The Woman's Study Bible, Full-Color, Red Letter: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Revelation, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, Verse Mapping Bible, Comfort Print: Find Connections in Scripture Using a Unique 5-Step Process, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Galatians, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, The Story, Hardcover, Comfort Print: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People. It is not only the fact that God slighted matters of prescriptive ordinance because of the ruined state of Israel, who rejected His true anointed King, but there was this principle also, that certainly God was not going to bind Himself not to do good where abject need was. But, as I have stated, the choice and ordination of the twelve apostles had really taken place before the sermon on the mount, though not mentioned in Matthew, but in Mark and Luke. [1.] A complete new set of values has been brought into life. We cannot earn what God gives us; we cannot deserve it; what God gives us is given out of the goodness of his heart; what God gives is not pay, but a gift; not a reward, but a grace. Poetical Books A few I have chosen for higher stations in the church. So it was here. "Christ demands that the driving force in your life must be love. However suitable to the Jewish expectation that He should be found a man, undeniably there was that apparent which was infinitely above the Jew's thought; for the Jew showed his own degradation and unbelief in the low ideas he entertained of the Messiah. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. It is not for us surely to think this impossible. It is true, we have only one in Mark, as in Luke; whereas in our gospel we have two. Reversal! 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. After this (what makes it still more unquestionable) comes the case of the demoniac. But if this be so, there is here absolute certainty that our Lord, on the very Sabbath in which He cast out the unclean spirit from the man in the synagogue of Capernaum, immediately after quitting the synagogue, entered the house of Peter, and that there and then He healed Peter's wife's mother of the fever. Every man has to learn that true greatness lies, not in dominance, but in service; and that in every sphere the price of greatness must be paid. It was after our Lord had called the twelve, and ordained them not after He had sent them forth, but after He had appointed them apostles that the Lord comes down to a plateau upon the mountain, instead of remaining upon the more elevated parts where He had been before. If you do, you have a different concept of God than I do. But Jesus called them to Himself and said, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. (iv) These two blind men were not afraid to bring a great request. "And forthwith when they were come out of the synagogue they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John; but Simon's wife's mother was sick of a fever, and anon they tell Him of her. The Gentiles came in at the eleventh hour, but it was because the gospel had not been before preached to them. Before he reads his Bible let him help the beggar.". O Lord God, your grace to me is marvelous. In spite of all he had said, here were these men and their mother still chattering about posts in an earthly government and kingdom. Compare Luke 17:7; Luke 17:8; Luke 12:37. He gives sight to the blind. Peter asks a word from his Master, and leaves the ship to join Him on the water. For what term are they hired? There was value for Him to look at His coming trial, and to think and say, I will complete what My Father has given Me to do. All of this takes the simple picture Jesus gave too far. In it there is the comfort of God. of Scripture. If we accept it as the true reading, it adds something to the warning of the previous clause. In Matthew we have no distinction of their call from their mission. Wisdom Literature The pattern is the Son of man saving the lost. But among my followers service alone is the badge of greatness. Matthew 20:16 The New King James Version (NKJV) 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. 9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. Slaves and servants were regarded as being at least to some extent attached to the family; they were within the group; their fortunes would vary with the fortunes of the family, but they would never be in any imminent danger of starvation in normal times. And He came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them." Minor Prophets And as they departed from Jericho ( Matthew 20:29 ). What Jesus Did! He tells them that they should not have gone over (or finished) the cities of Israel till the Son of man be come. The world will respect, and admire, and sometimes fear, the man of power; but it will love the man of love. He often fell down exhausted, and the rough men of the slums carried him gently back to his hut. Yet they were paid exactly the same. (ii) These two blind men were undiscourageable. And, 2. faithful unto death shall receive the crown of life. So many people, both in things material and in things spiritual, get what they want, and then forget even to say thanks. 1. They are the circumstances that preceded the discourse upon the mount, as given in Matthew 5:1-48; Matthew 6:1-34; Matthew 7:1-29. I. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? (E) They will condemn him to death 19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged(F) and crucified. They never did make front page or even back page. Luke-Acts The evil spirits asked leave to pass into the herd of swine, which thus typify the final condition of the defiled, apostate mass of Israel; their presumptuous and impenitent unbelief reduces them to that deep degradation not merely the unclean, but the unclean filled with the power of Satan, and carried down to swift destruction. It begins with a well-known scene but then introduces surprising elements to make a powerful point. Going back just a little bit further, Peter had said to Jesus, "Lord, we have left all to follow thee"( Matthew 19:27 ). Others think it refers to how the gospel first dawned with John the Baptist, then the preaching of Jesus, then the preaching at Pentecost, then to the Jews, and finally to the Gentiles. God does not permit Scripture to be thus used without losing its force, its beauty, and the grand object for which it was written. The grape harvest ripened towards the end of September, and then close on its heels the rains came. The circumstances of this serve to adorn the parable; but the general scope is plain, that the last shall be first. Jesus was there to call, not righteous men, but sinners. [5.] The indignation of the ten doubtless sprang less from humility than jealousy plus fear that they might lose out. (Carson). But it is expressly the pattern after which He was to deal, and will deal, with Israel. A man came there first thing in the morning, carrying his tools, and waited until someone hired him. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. It is a very significant story, for it paints a picture of the spirit and of the attitude of mind and heart to which the most precious gifts of God are open. His word should silence all our murmurings, that, whatever God does to us, or withholds from us, he does us no wrong. If the harvest was not ingathered before the rains broke, then it was ruined; and so to get the harvest in was a frantic race against time. Let me passingly notice a very few particulars. As he had asserted in ( Matthew 19:30 ) and which is clearly illustrated by this parable, as it may be applied to Jews or Gentiles, or to nominal and real Christians: for many be called; externally, under the ministration of the Gospel, as . Neither would Jewish disciples necessarily receive more than Gentile disciples whom God calls later in His program of preparation for the kingdom (cf. No word whatever implies that the cleansing of the leper happened at that time. It is a saying of R. Simeon ben Jochai F4. The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16); Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection (Matthew 20:17-19; Mark 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34); Greatness is Serving (Matthew 20:20-28); Two Blind Men Receive Their Sight (Matthew 20:29-34). it was not for the whole the Physician was needed. 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Hugh Martin reminds us that a great teacher used to say that the saddest words in all Shakespeare's plays are the words: "Othello's occupation's gone." The true disciple is motivated by love not lust. The scribes, at the beginning of the chapter, could not hide from the Lord their bitter rejection of His glory as man on earth entitled, as His humiliation and cross would prove, to forgive. This, too, we ascertain from Mark 1:1-45, where there are clear marks of the time. They were still thinking in terms of personal reward and personal distinction; and they were thinking of personal success without personal sacrifice. Or is your eye evil because I am good?. He is the Lord of the harvest. Rudolf Bultmann writes: "In the Cross of Christ Jewish standards of judgment and human notions of the splendour of the Messiah are shattered." ii. The amazing thing about Jesus is that he never lost patience and became irritated. The Old Testament The ignorance is wholly on our side: all they say or omit was owing to the far-reaching and gracious wisdom of Him who inspired them. Therefore it was not a mere simple fact that He banished sickness or infirmity, but He carried them in His spirit before God. The picture is that the landowner had an inexhaustible supply of work for those who wanted to work. . "And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed Him, crying and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us." The landowner rebuked them for their jealousy and resentment of the landowners generosity towards others. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. Far from lowering the position of His servant, He declares there was none greater among mortal men. At that time Jesus answered, "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes. The promise of Matthew 19:28 forms the background to this request; the thrones are already assured, leaving only the question of precedence. (France). (Matthew 20:17-19) Jesus again reveals the fate waiting for Him at Jerusalem. He is talking about, no doubt, the scourging that He was going to receive, because it could not be that any of His bones should be broken. It is a question, then, of internal evidence, what that particular order is which God has employed in each different gospel. They must still continue to endure the scourge of crime they could never expiate. Think of when this request was made. He sits on the dust heap among the prison convicts. All rights reserved worldwide. He said to them, "My cup you are to drink; but to sit on my right hand and my left is not mine to give, but that belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."
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