Study the bible online using commentary on Matthew 4 and more! The commencement of this light, and, as we might say, the dawn, was the return of the people from Babylon. Matthew 4:13. . 2 b He fasted for forty days and forty nights, * and afterwards he was hungry. Words in boxes are from the Bible. (1.) On the western banks were the towns of Tiberias, of Magdala, (the residence of the Magdalen,) Capernaum, and Chorazin. The peace of the kingdom of Christ. Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Jesus naturally went to Nazareth first, but He did not tarry there.— , He went to settle (as in Matthew 2:23) in Capernaum. After being rejected there the first time. In the summer or late spring it is filled with an atmosphere of oppressive heat, in great contrast with the bracing breezes of the neighbouring hills of Galilee. We adopt, however, the opinion of Dr. Thomson, that it was situated at the point which is now called Tell-Hum. Leaving Nazareth — Namely, when they had rejected his word, and even attempted to kill him, as is described Luke 4:29: he came and dwelt in Capernaum, upon the sea-coast — “Capernaum is nowhere mentioned in the Old Testament, either by its own name or by any other. – Matthew 4:19. Mentioned, not to distinguish it, but on account of the prophecy which follows. There would be no difficulty in this history, were it not that there is some appearance, as if Matthew had put a wrong meaning on the quotation from the prophet. The healing of the son of one of the Tetrarch’s officers at Capernaum (John 4:46-54) had secured there a certain degree of protection and of influence. Here he makes his chief residence, a place well calculated for his preaching, being on the limits of both Galilee, although he made frequent excursions through Galilee to disseminate his doctrines. Verses 4–13. We adopt, however, the opinion of Dr. Thomson, that it was situated at the point which is now called Tell-Hum. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: . NIV Devotional Bible for Women--hardcover, jacketed printed . Hence it follows, that our souls are plunged in the darkness of everlasting death, till he enlightens them by his grace. In Capernaum. (See Hist. The promise ought to be extended, I have no doubt, to the whole body of the people, which might seem to be, to all appearance, lost and destroyed. We also met with it before, Matthew 10:22. Its surface was alive with the ships, or rather lake-boats, of fisher-men and navigators. Capernaum was an important place, the residence of Andrew, Peter, and the sons of Zebedee, probably of Matthew also, chiefly honored by the title, ‘His own city’ (Matthew 9:1). Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. We have the same Mark 13:13. And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Thus the double advantages of intercourse by sea and land were secured by our Lord’s position at Capernaum.”. Capernaum. Read Matthew 4:13 commentary using Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament. The Temptation of Jesus. Commentary on Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 View Bible Text . Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Matthew 4:13: John 7:41-52 Matthew 4:12 : Matthew 4:14 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Pliny says it was sixteen miles long, and six broad. A COLLECTION OF MIRACLE STORIES In these chapters, Matthew assembles a collection of miracle stories designed to demonstrate that Jesus is, indeed, the Messiah, and that he works by God's power. The word is called the sword of the Spirit, Ephesians 6:17. (1-20) Their proceedings. St. Luke (Luke 4:16-30) connects it with His rejection by the men of this very place, where He had been brought up, and their attempt upon His life. When those, who lay in darkness, are said to have seen a great light, a change so sudden and remarkable is intended to enlarge our views of the greatness of the divine salvation. A Synagogue has been discovered in the present ruins. The reasons for the choice of that city lie, some of them, on the surface. Under the Roman government custom-houses were established, at which tribute was taken by the publicans, of which Matthew was one. And now follows, in the words which we have quoted, what is calculated to soothe their grief. Its position on the shore of the lake, as a town with a garrison and a custom-house, made it the natural centre of the fishing-trade of the Lake of Galilee. (3.) The chronology of John 5:1 is uncertain (see Notes there), but at some time before, or shortly after, this migration to Capernaum, we must place the visit to Jerusalem, and the miracle at Bethesda, which St. John there records. 13.Leaving Nazareth — After being rejected there the first time. Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) << Proverbs 3 | Proverbs 4 | Proverbs 5 >> (Read all of Proverbs 4) Complete Concise Chapter Contents. Sandwiched between the Lectionary excerpts Jesus insists that old garments and old wineskins cannot withstand new cloth and new wineskins. Four or five of the Twelve lived there; it had a considerable and mixed population, securing some freedom from that intense bigotry which even to this day characterizes all places where Jews in large numbers dwell nearly alone; it was centrical, so that not only on the approach of the annual festivals did large numbers pass through it or near it, but on any occasion multitudes could easily be collected about it; and for crossing and recrossing the lake, which our Lord had so often occasion do, no place could be more convenient. It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete) << Hebrews 3 | Hebrews 4 | Hebrews 5 >> (Read all of Hebrews 4) Complete Concise The apostle, having in the foregoing chapter set forth the sin and punishment of the ancient Jews, proceeds in this, I. The evangelist describes the position not to satisfy the curiosity of geographers, but to pave the way for another prophetic reference. Threats abound, but God carefully orchestrates Jesus’ earliest days according to Matthew. Exhortation to the study of wisdom. A city of 30,000 on the northwest shore of the Lake of Galilee, It was an important city, had a synagogue, a Roman army garrison, and a customs station with Matthew as the tax officer. As the traveller descends from the rocky walls by which it is encompassed, the temperature of its deep basin grows warm. (See Hist. ), The Israelites had been twice visited by a heavy calamity: first, when four tribes, or thereby, were carried away into banishment, by Tiglath-Pileser, (2 Kings 15:29;) and, secondly, when Shalmaneser completed the destruction of the kingdom of Israel, (2 Kings 18:9.) “All along the edge of this secluded basin,” says Stanley, “runs the whole way round from north to south a level beach, at the southern end roughly strewn with the black and white stones peculiar to this district, and also connected with its volcanic structure; but the central or northern part formed of smooth sand, or of a texture of shells and pebbles so minute as to resemble sand, like the substance of the beach on the Gulf of ‘Akabah. Through the centre of this lake, from north to south, runs the rapid current of the River Jordan, which, coming down from its sources in the Lebanon, passes onward to the Dead Sea. These localities are unparalleled in interest to the heart of the Christian traveller, and no waters in the world are surveyed with such emotions as the Lake of Gennesaret, and the stream of the Jordan. Matthew 4:13. Its name is compounded of the words Kefr, village, and Nahum, refreshment. Capernaum was a town situated upon the western shore of the Lake of Gennesaret. “Situated,” says Stanley, “in the midst of the Jordan valley, on the great thoroughfare from Babylon and Damascus, in Palestine, its waters seemed to answer a purpose like that served by the Lake of Lucerne, between Italy and Germany. The Sea of Tiberias is about thirteen miles in length, and, in its broadest part, six miles in breadth. Other People's Commentary (NT) entries containing Matthew 4:13: Mark 1:14 Matthew 4:12 : Matthew 4:14 >> DISCLAIMER: Church of the Great God (CGG) provides these resources to aid the individual in studying the Bible. Because rejected there (Luke 4:16-30). : sufficiently defined by these words, “on the sea (of Galilee), on the confines of Zebulun and Naphthali”. Matthew: Jesus is *Christ the King. Retail: $34.99. (Syn. Leaving Nazareth — Namely, when they had rejected his word, and even attempted to kill him, as is described Luke 4:29 : he came and dwelt in Capernaum, upon the sea-coast — “Capernaum is nowhere mentioned in the Old Testament, either by its own name or by any other. (13) Leaving Nazareth.—The form of the name in the older MSS. The coast or shore of the Lake of Gennesaret. And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zebulon and Naphtali. It was abandoned long ago. There is much difference of opinion as to its true position. - Matthew 4:19. Long before the settlement of the tribes in the land of Canaan, the dying Jacob prophesied of Zebulun, (, :) “Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be an haven of the ships; and his borders shall be unto Zidon.”, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, John Lightfoot's Commentary on the Gospels, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, E.M. Zerr's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament. Now, we know that the kingdom of Christ is spiritual, and, therefore, the light of salvation which it brings, and all the assistance which we derive from it, must correspond to its nature. AMPC. Its fisheries furnished a source of sustenance to the surrounding inhabitants, and an industry for its labourers. By the way of the sea, beyond Jordan] Situate on the Jordan, near the sea.Campbell. ); a second visit being that detailed by our Evangelist (Matthew 13:54-58), and by Mark (Matthew 6:1-6). (2.) In its narrative context, this pericope reveals a number of things about the person and ministry of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Some locate it at Khan Minyeh, at the northern end of the Plain of Gennesaret (El-Ghuweir), near the Fountain of the Fig-Tree, and on the present highway to Damascus; others two or three miles further north, at Tell Hum, which is more probable on account of the very remarkable ruins, including a white synagogue (carefully examined and described by Capt. Wilson, 1866), and on account of the similarity of the name (Tell Hum means ‘Hill of Nahum,’ and Capernaum ‘Village of Nahum’). And leaving Nazareth, He went and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali. The lake by which it stood, though now deserted and lonely, was then the scene of busy life. Matthew 4:13 is the thirteenth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.In the previous verse Jesus returned to Galilee after hearing of the arrest of John the Baptist.In this verse he leaves from Nazareth to Capernaum.. What gives it a remarkable aspect, is the deep depression of its surface not only far below the lofty summits of its banks, but far below the level of the Mediterranean Sea. parathalassios. Content. Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) << 1 Corinthians 12 | 1 Corinthians 13 | 1 Corinthians 14 >> (Read all of 1 Corinthians 13) Complete Concise Chapter Contents. There is much difference of opinion as to its true position. St. Matthew records the bare fact. Thence on the curve of the northeastern shore was the grassy plain of Butaiha, where the five thousand were miraculously fed. Matthew 4:12-17. Well known then, now of doubtful situation, being no longer in existence. пояснение к Лк.4:23). That Matthew's order is the right one will appear, we think, quite clearly in the sequel. The text in Isaiah 9:1 ,2 , where the words are, Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. App-169. A word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. Not... in Nazareth. is Nazara. It was on the border between the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali. Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible. It was in the Gentile area of Galilee—not in Jewish Jerusalem to the south—where Christ began His ministry of light. According to the historian, Josephus, it did not belong to Herod, the tetrarch, who sent the baptist to confinement, but to Philip, the tetrarch, his brother. But to us there seem all but insuperable difficulties in the supposition of two visits to Nazareth after His baptism; and on the grounds stated on Luke 4:16, etc., we think that the one only visit to Nazareth is that recorded by Matthew (Matthew 13:1-58), Mark (Mark 6:1-56), and Luke (Luke 4:1-44.) Came and dwelt, or having come he settled. According to Josephus, Bell., 3:18, the length of this lake was one hundred furlongs, or twelve miles and a half, and its breadth forty furlongs, or five miles. View More Titles. A second rejection took place at a later period (comp. σεν εἰς Καπερναοὺμ. By the ancient division of the tribes, Zebulun bordered on this Sea of Gennesaret. The word Hum is doubtless the closing syllable of thee word Caperna, signifies a mound, or ancient, site, so the ancient Kefr-Nahum would be the modern Tell-Hum. No entry exists in People's Commentary (NT) for Matthew 4:13. Matthew 15:4. 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