Chapter 4:
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Matthew 4
Verse 1. Then - After this glorious evidence of his Father's love, he was
completely armed for the combat. Thus after the clearest light and
the strongest consolation, let us expect the sharpest temptations.
By the Spirit - Probably through a strong inward impulse. Mark i,
12; Luke iv, 1.
Verse
2. Having fasted - Whereby doubtless he received more abundant
spiritual strength from God. Forty days and forty nights - As did
Moses, the giver of the law, and Elijah, the great restorer of it. He
was afterward hungry - And so prepared for the first temptation.
Verse
3. Coming to him - In a visible form; probably in a human shape,
as one that desired to inquire farther into the evidences of his
being the Messiah.
Verse
4. It is written - Thus Christ answered, and thus we may answer
all the suggestions of the devil. By every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of God - That is, by whatever God commands to
sustain him. Therefore it is not needful I should work a miracle to
procure bread, without any intimation of my Father's will. Deut.
viii, 3.
Verse
5. The holy city - So Jerusalem was commonly called, being the
place God had peculiarly chosen for himself. On the battlement of
the temple - Probably over the king's gallery, which was of such a
prodigious height, that no one could look down from the top of it
without making himself giddy.
Verse
6. In their hands - That is, with great care. Psalm xci, 11, 12.
Verse
7. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God - By requiring farther
evidence of what he hath already made sufficiently plain. Deut. vi,
16.
Verse
8. Showeth him all the kingdoms of the world - In a kind of
visionary representation.
Verse
9. If thou wilt fall down and worship me - Here Satan clearly
shows who he was. Accordingly Christ answering this suggestion,
calls him by his own name, which he had not done before.
Verse
10. Get thee hence, Satan - Not, get thee behind me, that is, into
thy proper place; as he said on a quite different occasion to Peter,
speaking what was not expedient. Deut. vi, 13.
Verse
11. Angels came and waited upon him - Both to supply him with
food, and to congratulate his victory.
Verse
12. He retired into Galilee - This journey was not immediately
after his temptation. He first went from Judea into Galilee, John i,
43; ii, 1. Then into Judea again, and celebrated the passover at
Jerusalem, John ii, 13. He baptized in Judea while John was
baptizing at Enon, John iii, 22, 23. All this time John was at
liberty, John iii, 24. But the Pharisees being offended, John iv, 1;
and John put in prison, he then took this journey into Galilee.
Mark i, 14.
Verse
13. Leaving Nazareth - Namely, when they had wholly rejected
his word, and even attempted to kill him, Luke iv, 29.
Verse
15. Galilee of the Gentiles - That part of Galilee which lay beyond
Jordan was so called, because it was in a great measure inhabited
by Gentiles, that is, heathens. Isaiah ix, 1, 2.
Verse
16. Here is a beautiful gradation, first, they walked, then they sat
in darkness, and lastly, in the region of the shadow of death.
Verse
17. From that time Jesus began to preach - He had preached
before, both to Jews and Samaritans, John iv, 41, 45. But from
this time begin his solemn stated preaching. Repent, for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand - Although it is the peculiar
business of Christ to establish the kingdom of heaven in the hearts
of men, yet it is observable, he begins his preaching in the same
words with John the Baptist: because the repentance which John
taught still was, and ever will be, the necessary preparation for
that inward kingdom. But that phrase is not only used with regard
to individuals in whom it is to be established, but also with regard
to the Christian Church, the whole body of believers. In the
former sense it is opposed to repentance; in the latter the Mosaic
dispensation.
Verse
18. Mark i, 16; Luke v, 1.
Verse
23. The Gospel of the kingdom - The Gospel, that is, the joyous
message, is the proper name of our religion: as will be amply
verified in all who earnestly and perseveringly embrace it.
Verse
24. Through all Syria - The whole province, of which the Jewish
country was only a small part. And demoniacs - Men possessed
with devils: and lunatics, and paralytics - Men ill of the palsy,
whose cases were of all others most deplorable and most helpless.
Verse
25. Decapolis - A tract of land on the east side of the sea of
Galilee, in which were ten cities near each other.
Chapter 4:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
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