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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Jesus took him by the hand,.... "Took hold of the hand of the child", as the Persic version renders it; and lifted him up; from the ground, on which he was cast by the spirit; and he arose: this is omitted in the Syriac and Arabic versions, though in one edition of the latter, according to De Dieu, it is rendered, "and he stood"; to which is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. He was not dead, though many thought he was, and said so. Christ does not cure and then kill, he cures so that we shall never die. No, no, poor sinner, the last pangs of despair shall not destroy you, the fiercest, bitterest assaults of Satan shall not cause you to die: Christ will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. So may the Lord come, and take by the hand any here who seem to be dead in despair! A touch of his hand will enable them to stand.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he was come into the house,.... Perhaps into the man's house whose child he had healed, or into some other in these parts, for the sake both of retirement and refreshment: his disciples asked him privately, why could not we cast him out? The nine disciples, who were particularly concerned in this matter, fearing they had lost the power of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. The watchword for Christ’s disciples is “intensity.” Here was the devil in an intensely terrible form, and he could only be driven out by intense grace. There...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto them,.... Matthew, besides the following reason, assigns another, as given by our Lord, why they could not cast out the foul spirit, which was their unbelief; of which they were guilty in some sort, as well as the Jews, and the father of the child; but Mark omits it, and only relates this as the reason; this kind can come forth by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. God does not give us everything in answer to one prayer. It may be necessary for some blessings that the prayer should be reiterated — that it should deepen — that it should grow into an aching. It may be even necessary, in order that a blessing should come, that fasting should be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they departed thence,.... From the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, from that part of the country where the mountain was, on which Christ was transfigured, and at the foot of which the above miracle was wrought. This is to be understood of Christ and his twelve disciples, though the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read in the singular...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it. For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it. For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he taught his disciples, and said unto them,.... What he had some little time before suggested to them; see Mr 8:31. The son of man is delivered into the hands of men: in one of Beza's copies it is read, "sinful men", as in Lu 24:7 and so the Persic version reads here, and adds rebellious. This is represented as if it was already done, because...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they understood not that saying,.... Meaning either the whole of what he had said, concerning his delivery, death, and resurrection: and which then must be interpreted with some limitation; for they must understand the sense of his words, which were clear and express; especially concerning his death, which affected their minds with trouble and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he came to Capernaum,.... Where he met with the collectors of the tribute money, and paid it to them, as related by Matthew, Matthew 17:24, though Mark takes no notice of it. The Vulgate Latin and the Syriac versions, read in the plural number, "they came"; Christ and his twelve apostles; and which is the sense of the words, read in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
, And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. It was a dreadful descent from communing with Moses and Elias on the mount of transfiguration to meeting the furious...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they held their peace,.... Fearing a reprimand, for their vanity and affectation of worldly grandeur: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who [should be] the greatest; that is, who should be advanced to the highest post, and have the greatest place of authority, honour, and dignity, in the temporal kingdom of the Messiah, they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he sat down,.... As their master, as one having authority; and in order to examine into this matter, and pass judgment upon it: and called the twelve; all the disciples, who though they might not be all engaged in this dispute, nor equally criminal, yet were all, possessed of the same notion; and therefore Christ calls them all unto him, what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he took a child,.... Which was in the house, and which he called unto him, and set by him, as the other evangelists observe: and set him in the midst of them; his disciples, that all might see and learn from this instance; and when he had taken him in his arms; and embraced him, to show his great regard to humility, and humble persons: he said...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whosoever shall receive one of such children,.... That is, any believer, who is like to such a child for humility, meekness, and lowliness of mind; and so the Syriac version renders it, טליא איך הנא, "one like to this child": and so the Arabic and Persic versions; for it cannot be thought that Christ's meaning is, that whoever takes up any little...