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 # Mt 9:15
    \\The children of the bridechamber mourn.\\ The friends of
 the bridegroom, for the bride was brought to his father's house.
 Fasting was usually a sign of sorrow. He was himself the
 Bridegroom, and still with his disciples.
    \\When the bridegroom shall be taken from them.\\ An allusion
 especially to the crushing sorrow when he was crucified and
 buried. Real fasting takes place when there is real occasion for
 it. See
 # Ac 13:2 14:23 2Co 6:5 11:27
 (PNT 56)
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 # Mt 9:16
    \\No man putteth,\\ etc. Two illustrations follow to show the
 folly of patching up, or reforming, an old, worn out religion
 like Judaism.
    \\New cloth.\\ Cloth that has been shrunk. In shrinking it
 would tear the old cloth around it, and make a worse rent than
 before.
 (PNT 56)
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 # Mt 9:17
    \\Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins.\\ New wine
 is unfermented wine. Old skin bottles would become tender with
 age and burst during the fermentation of the wine.
 (PNT 56)
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 # Mt 9:18-19
    \\There came a certain ruler.\\ One of the rulers of the
 synagogue (probably of the synagogue of Capernaum). One of the
 elders and presiding officers, who convened the assembly,
 preserved order, invited readers and speakers. His name was
 Jairus.
 # Mr 5:22 Lu 8:41
    Matthew, Mark, and Luke all give this account. From them we
 learn that the maiden was twelve years old, was dying when the
 ruler started, was dead when he spoke to Jesus. Compare
 # Mr 5:22-43 Lu 8:41-56
 (PNT 56)
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 # Mt 9:20
    On his way to the house of Jairus another miracle was
 wrought.
    \\And, behold, a certain woman.\\ I think the circumstances
 of the narrative render the inference almost certain that this
 account was meant for the consolation of those multitudes of
 stricken women in all ages who seem to be afflicted with sorrows
 in very unequal measure, compared with the stronger, and
 generally, also, the more depraved, sex.--W. H. Thomson, M.D.
    \\An issue of blood.\\ A haemorrhage either from the bowels or
 the womb, probably the latter.
    \\Came behind [him], and touched the hem of his garment.\\
 The ordinary outer Jewish garment was a square or oblong piece
 of cloth, worn something like an Indian blanket.
 (PNT 56-57)
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 # Mt 9:21
    \\But touch his garment.\\ The Jews paid to the fringe a
 superstitious reverence. Sharing the superstition, this woman
 touched it in hope of cure.
 (PNT 57)
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 # Mt 9:22
    \\Thy faith had made thee well.\\ Literally, "thy faith hath
 saved thee." Her faith, of course, had not been the cause of her
 cure. Christ's power had been that. But her faith was the
 condition on her part. Hence it might be represented as having
 "made her whole." The student should observe that hers was not a
 passive faith, but it led to action. A passive faith is a dead
 faith.
 (PNT 57)
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 # Mt 9:23
    \\And when Jesus came into the ruler's house.\\ He healed the
 woman on the way.
    \\Saw the musicians.\\ The Jews, like other Orientals, were
 wont to employ professional mourners, minstrels who made
 plaintive music, or wailed.
 (PNT 57)
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 # Mt 9:24
    \\Give place; for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth.\\ The
 reality of the death is not denied, but only the fact implicitly
 assumed, that death will be followed by a resurrection, as sleep
 is by an awakening.
    \\Derided him.\\ The company of mourners was certain that the
 child was dead and, understanding neither the language nor the
 power of Jesus, laughed in derision.
 (PNT 57)
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 # Mt 9:25
    \\When the people were put forth.\\ Luke says that Peter,
 James and John, and the father and mother of the maiden were
 permitted to remain.
 # Lu 8:51
    \\Took her by the hand.\\ As we learn from the parallel
 accounts, he said to her, \\Talitha cumi.\\
 # Mr 5:41
 This is Aramaic, the language generally spoken by the common
 people in Palestine at the time of Christ. The words mean:
 "Rise, my child." They were immediately obeyed. She arose, and
 walked.
 (PNT 57)
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 # Mt 9:26
    \\The fame of this went abroad.\\ Mark and Luke dwell
 emphatically upon the astonishment felt by the parents, but
 shared doubtless by the three apostles.
 # Mr 5:42 Lu 8:56
 (PNT 57)
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 # Mt 9:27
    \\Two blind men followed him.\\ This account is given only by
 Matthew. Blindness is still very common under the burning sun
 and among the blinding sands of the East. No sight is more
 common than blind beggars. The want of attention to the eye when
 first diseased is one reason why this affliction is so common.
    \\[Thou] son of David, have mercy on us.\\ The title, "son of
 David," applied to Jesus by these blind men, as well as by those
 healed at Jericho, implied his Messiahship, as it was understood
 that the Christ was to be the son of David.
 (PNT 57)
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 # Mt 9:28

    \\The blind men came to him.\\ Not until he was come into the
 house he was seeking.

    \\Believe ye that I am able to do this?\\ Jesus questions the
 men about the extent of their faith.
 (PNT 57-58 edited)
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 # Mt 9:29
    \\According to your faith be it to you.\\ Faith is the hand
 which takes what God offers, the spiritual organ of
 appropriation.
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:30-31
    \\Jesus strictly charged them,\\ etc. Their changed condition
 would sufficiently tell the story without their indiscreet
 babbling. They failed to obey, which they should have done,
 whether they understood the reason of the command or not. Note
 the three great lessons about our Lord:
 (1) He is the Life. He not only breaks the bonds of mortal
     death, but endows the soul with spiritual life.
 (2) He is the infallible Physician. Diseases of the body,
     sorrows of the heart, and sins of the soul that no man can
     heal, disappear at his touch.
 (3) He is the Light of the world. At his word sightless eyes
     see. At his word darkened souls are flooded with light.
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:32
    \\A dumb man possessed with a demon.\\ Compare
 # Lu 11:14
 A complication of physical and spiritual maladies.
 See note on "Mt 8:28"
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:33
    \\It was never so seen in Israel.\\ Filled with wonder at the
 cure, the multitude declared that no prophet had ever done such
 wonders. They were right.
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:34
    \\The Pharisees said.\\ With their usual perverseness they
 gave a sinister explanation.
    \\Through the prince of the demons.\\ In other words: He gets
 power from the devil, instead of God, to cast out demons.
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:35
    \\Jesus went about all the cities.\\ He began to widen the
 area of his ministry.
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:36
    \\When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion.\\
 The Lord seldom looked upon a crowd of the poor, lost, human
 beings without being moved with tender compassion.
    \\Because they were faint, and were . . . as sheep having no
 \\shepherd.\\ A figure representing their spiritual condition.
 They "fainted" under the burdens placed on them by pretended
 shepherds, Pharisees and scribes. They wandered, as sheep left
 without care.
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:37
    \\The harvest truly [is] plentiful, but the labourers [are]
 \\few.\\ First the people are represented under the figure of
 sheep, scattering abroad, without a shepherd's care; next as a
 ripe and abandoned harvest, ready to be lost unless reapers are
 sent to gather it.
 (PNT 58)
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 # Mt 9:38
    \\Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest.\\ The Lord of
 the harvest is Christ. When we pray the Lord for anything we
 must work to fulfil our own prayers. If we pray for labourers,
 we must be willing to become labourers ourselves, or to send and
 sustain other labourers.
 (PNT 59)
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 # Mt 10:1
  SUMMARY OF MATTHEW 10
  \\The Call and Charge to the Apostles\\

  The Twelve Apostles
  The Charge
  To Whom Sent
  How to Go
  What to Preach
  How to Act If Received or Rejected
  Persecution
  Prudence Required
  Trials to Be Met
  Need Have No Care for a Defense
  Fear Not Men, but God
  The Father's Care
  Not Peace, but a Sword
  Loving Christ More Than Father or Mother
  No Kind Act Lost

    \\He had called to [him] his twelve disciples.\\ Compare
 # Mr 3:13-19 Lu 9:1-6
 The twelve had already been called, and had attended the Lord
 for some time. They were now commissioned and sent forth as
 apostles. This must be connected directly with the last three
 verses of the preceding chapter, which should belong to Chapter
 10.
    \\He gave them power.\\ To do the same kind of works of mercy
 which Jesus had done, and thus to carry out his mission. Works
 of mercy and love are inseparable from the true preaching of the
 gospel.
 (PNT 59)
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 # Mt 10:2-4
    \\Now the names of the twelve apostles are these.\\ Of the
 twelve apostles there are four lists, found in
 # 10:2-4 Mr 3:16-19 Lu 6:14-16 Ac 1:13
    They differ in the following particulars:
 (1) Luke, in the book of Acts, does not insert the name of Judas
     Iscariot, who was then dead;
 (2) both in the Gospel and in Acts he entitles the Simon, who,
     here and in Mark, is called the Canaanite, Simon Zelotes;
     Matthew gives as the tenth disciple, Lebbaeus; Mark calls him
     Thaddaeus;
 (3) Luke and Acts, Judas of James, i.e., either son or brother
     of James; and Mark says that James and John were surnamed by
     Christ, Boanerges, i.e., the sons of thunder.
 In other respects the four lists are identical.
    There are three pairs of brothers among them. Andrew and
 Peter, James and John, James the Less and Judas, or Thaddaeus.
 James and John I believe to have been cousins of our Lord. With
 the exception of Judas Iscariot, all were Galilaeans; several of
 them were by trade fishermen, a laborious and profitable
 calling; there was neither priest nor scribe among them; all
 were from the ranks of the common people.
 (PNT 59)
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 # Mt 10:5
    \\Go not into the way of the Gentiles.\\ The Jews called all
 "Gentiles" who were not Jews.
    \\Samaritans.\\ The inhabitants of Samaria, a district
 between Judea and Galilee; descendants of a remnant of the Ten
 Tribes, mixed with Gentiles colonized there. They accepted the
 five books of Moses, but worshipped on Mount Gerizim, instead of
 at Jerusalem. They and the Jews had been for ages bitter
 enemies.
 (PNT 59-60)
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 # Mt 10:6
    \\The lost sheep of the house of Israel.\\ The lost
 descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Compare this commission
 with the one given to the apostles after the death and
 resurrection of the Lord.
 # 10:5,6 28:19
 In this commission the apostles are forbidden to go to the
 Gentiles or the Samaritans, and are confined to the house of
 Israel. In the other they are commanded to go into "all the
 world," and to "preach the gospel to every creature"; to go
 "first to Jerusalem, and to Judea, and to Samaria and to the
 uttermost part of the earth."
 # Ac 1:8
 The first commission is Jewish; the second is world-wide. Yet
 both are given by the same Lord; why this wide difference?
 Because the new dispensation was not ushered in until after the
 resurrection. The Jewish law, national, exclusive, a wall of
 partition from Gentiles, was yet in force. Christ, "born under
 the law," and the apostles also were under it until it was
 removed. They could not keep it and yet become missionaries to
 the Gentiles. But when Christ died the old dispensation, the
 law, died with him. "The handwriting of ordinances was nailed to
 the cross."
 # Col 2:14
 The old covenant passed away when the new came into force,
 sealed with the blood of Christ. After the death and
 resurrection of Christ, the law ceased to be binding upon the
 apostles. The distinctions of Jew and Gentile were destroyed.
 Hence, under the new covenant, the world-wide covenant, there
 was a new commission that would send the gospel to all the
 world. The old covenant was with the seed of Abraham; the new
 covenant embraced all nations. See
 # Heb 8:13
 (PNT 59-60)
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 # Mt 10:7
    \\Proclaim, . . . The kingdom of heaven is at hand.\\ John the
 Baptist and Christ preached, "The kingdom is at hand."
 # 3:2 4:17
 It was near, but not yet inaugurated.  There was no such reservation
 in the second or Great Commission.  Then "all power in heaven and on
 earth" was in the hands of Christ.
 # 28:18
 He became King after he suffered. His power was demonstrated on earth
 after his resurrection and on the day of Pentecost. After he was
 "lifted up" he became "both Lord and Messiah" on the highest throne.
 # Rev 1:5,6 3:21 Acts 2:38
 (PNT 60 edited)
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 # Mt 10:8
    \\Heal the sick,\\ etc. Not only in order to do a beneficent
 work, but to demonstrate that they had the Lord's commission.
 (PNT 60)
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 # Mt 10:9
    \\Provide neither gold,\\ etc. Because "the workman is worthy
 of his meat" and those to whom they preached should supply all
 their wants. Compare
 # 1Ti 5:18 1Co 9:7-14
 This has always been the law of Christ.
 (PNT 60)
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 # Mt 10:10
    \\Nor bag.\\ A wallet, or valise.
    \\Nor shoes.\\ They were allowed to wear sandals, such as the
 common people wore.
 # Mr 6:8,9
 They should go with simply their ordinary wear. They were
 required to dress as the people.
    \\Nor staves.\\ With the staff each one had, but without an
 extra supply. A staff was always carried in walking over the
 rugged mountains of Palestine.
 (PNT 60)
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 # Mt 10:11
    \\There abide.\\ With some one noted for hospitality and
 worth. They were not to board round from house to house.
 (PNT 60)
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 # Mt 10:12
    \\When ye come into an house, greet it.\\ Courteously salute
 the household.
 (PNT 60)
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 # Mt 10:13
    \\Let your peace come upon it.\\ The Oriental salutation is,
 "Peace be with you." If the household were hospitable and
 friendly, let this blessing rest upon them. If they proved
 unfriendly, leave them to their own course and its results.
 (PNT 60)
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 # Mt 10:14
    \\Shake off the dust of your feet.\\ This was done when there
 was a positive rejection of the gospel. It was a symbolical act,
 signifying that all responsibility for the stubborn household or
 city had ended. Compare
 # Mr 6:11 Lu 9:5 Ac 13:51
    Nor can the gospel be forced upon an unwilling people in any
 age.
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:15
    \\Verily I say to you.\\ This formula always introduces a
 very emphatic saying.
    \\More tolerable for the land of Sodom,\\ etc. The cities of
 the Jordan valley destroyed for their sins in the time of
 Abraham.
 # Ge 19:1-28
 These cities did not have the opportunity, and hence, not the
 responsibility, of those to which Christ or his apostles
 preached.
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:16
    \\As sheep in the midst of wolves.\\ Defenceless by human
 means, among the fierce and cruel; among bitter enemies.
    \\Wise as serpents.\\ Prudent, discreet. Serpents are very
 cautious in avoiding danger.
    \\Harmless as doves.\\ Guileless and innocent as doves. The
 dove, peaceful, never preying on other birds, has always been a
 symbol of innocence.
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:17
    \\Beware of men.\\ The wolves.
    \\To the councils.\\ To the local courts to be tried for
 heresy and other offenses.
    \\They will scourge you.\\ This punishment was inflicted on
 offenders in the synagogues. See
 # Ac 22:19 26:11
 The Talmud states that scourging was inflicted by the officers
 of the synagogue.
    \\In their synagogues.\\ The Jewish assemblages corresponding
 to modern churches.
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:18
    \\Ye shall be brought before governors.\\ Before the civil
 tribunals, like criminals.
    \\And kings.\\ This was literally fulfilled in the case of
 James, the brother of John, and Paul.
 # Ac 12:2 26:1
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:19
    \\Be not anxious how or what ye shall speak.\\ They are not
 told to take no thought what they shall preach, but that the
 Holy Spirit will give them utterance when they make their
 defense before civil magistrates.
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:20
    \\Your Father.\\ Not "Our Father." The Saviour never says,
 "Our Father," except when he teaches the disciples to pray, but
 "My Father" and "Your Father." God was his Father in a different
 sense from that in which he is our Father.
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:21
    \\The brother shall deliver up the brother.\\ The rest of the
 family shall turn upon their own kindred who accept Christ, and
 become their bitter enemies. This has been fulfilled thousands
 of times in every age.
 (PNT 61)
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 # Mt 10:22

    \\Ye shall be hated by all [men].\\ Jews and pagans made a common
 cause against early Christianity. The wicked and perverse hate it
 still.

    \\He that endureth to the end.\\ Holds out faithful.  Perseverance
 gives proof of genuine faith, and is sure of reward.
 (PNT 62 edited)
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 # Mt 10:23
    \\Flee ye into another.\\ They were not to rashly expose
 their lives where it would do no good, but go elsewhere and
 continue preaching. Life is a sacred possession, and must not be
 flung away. It may be given up for the sake of Christ.
    \\Till the Son of man shall have come.\\ A reference
 primarily, no doubt, to the Lord coming into his kingdom. See
 # 16:28
 He was thus to come in the life time of some of the apostles. He
 did thus come in the establishment of his kingdom in power on
 the day of Pentecost. He also came in judgment on the Jews at
 the destruction of Jerusalem. This event ended Jewish
 persecution. There is also the final coming to judge the world,
 but the meaning here does not include that.
 (PNT 62)
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 # Mt 10:24
    \\The disciple is not above [his] teacher.\\ The disciples
 must expect to be treated like the master.
 (PNT 62)
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 # Mt 10:25
    \\Called the master . . . Beelzebub.\\ The prince of evil,
 Satan, is meant.
 (PNT 62)
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 # Mt 10:26
    \\Fear them not therefore.\\ Because Christ shall triumph,
 and all shall be brought to judgment, where every secret shall
 be made manifest.
 (PNT 62)