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 # Mt 15:11
    \\Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man.\\ The
 Mosaic law forbade Jews to eat what was ceremonially unclean, in
 order to teach the need of moral purity. The Rabbis added
 stringent precepts to prevent the slightest contact with
 ceremonial uncleanness, but were careless about moral purity.
 Christ shows that a pure heart is far more important than clean
 food, in the ceremonial sense, in the stomach. Pharisees in all
 ages have paid more attention to the letter than to the spirit,
 to the symbol than to that which is signified.
    \\That which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.\\
 The impure words that indicate an impure heart. What one eats
 does not render him defiled before God, but what he says. See
 # 15:18-23
 (PNT 88)
00501
 # Mt 15:12
    \\The Pharisees were offended.\\ Found fault. They would
 insist that he set aside the law, whereas it was tradition that
 he rejected.
 (PNT 88)
00502
 # Mt 15:13
    \\Every plant.\\ A general truth, but here refers to the
 doctrines not of God, like "the tradition of the elders."
 (PNT 89)
00503
 # Mt 15:14
    \\Let them alone.\\ The Pharisees. His disciples were
 troubled by their opposition.
    \\They are blind leaders of the blind.\\ They pretend to be
 spiritual guides of the people, while spiritually blind
 themselves. The blind are unsafe guides of the blind.
 (PNT 89)
00504
 # Mt 15:15
    \\Expound to us this parable.\\ The figure was used in
 # 15:11
 (PNT 89)
00506
 # Mt 15:17
    \\Is cast out.\\ What is eaten passes through the body and
 passes away. It does not defile the soul.
 (PNT 89)
00507
 # Mt 15:18
    \\Come forth from the heart.\\ The emotional nature; the
 mind. Evil deeds are begotten of evil thoughts; evil words are
 the expression of these evil thoughts. These indicate a sinful
 heart and make a man sinful, or defiled.
 (PNT 89)
00510
 # Mt 15:21
    \\Jesus . . . departed into the borders.\\ Compare
 # Mr 7:24-30
    \\Tyre and Sidon.\\ Tyre and Sidon were the two principal
 cities of Phoenicia, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
 Tyre was about twenty miles south of Sidon, and about one
 hundred miles in a straight line northwest of Jerusalem. In the
 days of David and Solomon, Tyre was the leading seaport of the
 world. It was afterwards taken by the Babylonians, the Persians,
 and Alexander, but up to the time of Christ it remained a great
 commercial city. Since then its harbour has been filled with
 sand, and there remains only a wretched shadow of its former
 greatness. Both were Gentile cities in a Gentile country. That
 is the only instance in the Lord's ministry when he went beyond
 the bounds of Palestine.
 (PNT 89)
00511
 # Mt 15:22
    \\Behold, a woman of Canaan.\\ The name Canaan was the oldest
 bestowed upon the country, and all the heathen inhabitants were
 often called Canaanites, whether of the same stock or not. Mark
 says that the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician; i.e., a
 Gentile, and a Syro-Phoenician, because she lived in the
 district of Syria called Phoenicia.
 # Mr 7:26
    \\Have mercy on me.\\ She has a boon to ask for her daughter,
 or rather indeed for herself, for so entirely had she made her
 daughter's misery her own.
    \\O Lord, [thou] son of David.\\ It is remarkable that two of
 the brightest examples of faith seen in the ministry of Christ
 were exhibited by Gentiles, that of the centurion,
 # 8:8-10
 and of this woman. The fact that the latter addresses Jesus as
 "the son of David," shows that she knew of the prophecies
 concerning the Christ and that he would be the son of David.
    \\My daughter is grievously afflicted with a demon.\\ More
 correctly, "a demon."
 See note on "Mt 8:28"
 (PNT 89-90)
00512
 # Mt 15:23
    \\He answered her not a word.\\ He neither repelled her, nor
 made a favourable answer. There were reasons for hesitation, but
 there is no doubt that it was his purpose to have mercy.
 See note on "Mt 15:24"
 He delayed in order to bring out a great lesson.
 (PNT 90)
00513
 # Mt 15:24
    \\I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of\\
 \\Israel.\\ The Lord's personal mission was to the Jews. Under
 the first commission his apostles were directed to go only to
 the Jews.
 # 10:6
 It would be impossible to evangelize the Gentiles without
 setting aside the Jewish customs, the law of Moses, and arousing
 the bitterest prejudice of the Jews. Hence it was the divine
 plan that the Son should "keep the law blameless" during his
 ministry. It was only when the Jews crucified him that "the
 handwriting of ordinances was nailed to the cross"
 # Col 2:14
 the "wall of partition"
 # Eph 2:14
 between Jews and Gentiles broken down, and all prepared for the
 Great Commission which bade his disciples "go into all the world
 and preach the gospel to every creature."
 # Mr 16:15
 (PNT 90)
00514
 # Mt 15:25
    \\Then came she and worshipped him.\\ Instead of being
 discouraged by the words of Christ, she only became the more
 earnest.
 (PNT 90)
00515
 # Mt 15:26
    \\It is not right to take the children's bread.\\ She knew
 that, in comparing the Jews to the children of God's family, and
 the heathen to the dogs without, he simply used the customary
 language of a Jew. He would bring out fully the greatness of her
 faith. The gospel was offered first to the Jews and then to all.
 (PNT 90)
00516
 # Mt 15:27
    \\Truth, Lord.\\ Observe that she acquiesces heartily in
 Christ's declaration: it is not fit that the dogs be fed before
 the children.
    \\Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs.\\ The word for "crumbs"
 [\\psichion\\] is a diminutive, and means "little crumbs."
 (PNT 90)
00517
 # Mt 15:28
    \\Woman, great [is] thy faith.\\ We can see how greatness of
 faith is manifested:
 (1) She came to Christ under difficulties.
 (2) She persevered when her prayer seemed to be denied.
 (3) She still pleaded when obstacles were presented.
 (4) She waited at the feet of the Lord until he had mercy. Such
     faith always prevails.
    \\Her daughter was made well.\\ Mark, who adds some features
 omitted by Matthew, follows the woman home, where she found her
 daughter no longer raving, or in convulsions, but lying quiet
 on the bed, healed in consequence of her mother's faith and
 prayers.
 # Mr 7:30
 (PNT 90)
00518
 # Mt 15:29
    \\And Jesus departed from there.\\ How long Jesus stayed in
 these parts is unknown.
 (PNT 90)
00519
 # Mt 15:30
    \\There great multitudes came to him.\\ Where he had retired
 for rest and solitude to a mountain.
 # 15:29
 (PNT 90)
00520
 # Mt 15:31
    \\Glorified the God of Israel.\\ They were Jews, but living
 on the border, somewhat under heathen ideas. The miracles of
 Christ led them to praise and reverence Jehovah.
 (PNT 91)
00521
 # Mt 15:32
    \\I have compassion on the multitude.\\ Because while seeking
 him in his mountain solitude many of them had been for three
 days without regular food.
 (PNT 91)
00522
 # Mt 15:33
    \\Where should we get so much bread?\\ This was not said in
 ignorance of the Lord's creative power, but probably to suggest
 the need of its exercise. They could not have forgotten the
 events narrated in
 # 14:15-21
 (PNT 91)
00524
 # Mt 15:35
    \\He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.\\ Not
 on the grass, as in,
 # 14:19
 for they were in a bare, desolate, grassless region, such as the
 greater part of Judea is today.
 (PNT 91)
00527
 # Mt 15:38
    \\Four thousand.\\ Instead of 5,000, as in the former
 miracle.
 (PNT 91)
00528
 # Mt 15:39
    \\Came into the borders of Magdala.\\ He took the boat to
 escape the multitude. Magdala was on the western shore of the
 lake, three miles north of Tiberias. The ASV says Magadan,
 supposed to have been a village near Magdala. Mark says
 Dalmanutha.
 # Mr 8:10
 The meaning is that he came into the vicinity of all three of
 these places, which were near each other.
 (PNT 91)
00529
 # Mt 16:1
  SUMMARY OF MATTHEW 16
  \\The Foundation of the Church\\

  A Sign Demanded
  The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees
  At Caesarea Philippi
  The Elias Who Should Come
  The Confession of Peter
  The Rock on Which the Church Should Be Founded
  The Keys
  Christ's Death at Jerusalem Foretold
  The Rebuke of Peter
  Losing Life and Finding It
  The Coming of the Son of Man

    \\The Pharisees also and the Sadducees.\\ Compare
 # Mr 8:10-13
 For description of these two sects,
 see note on "Mt 3:7"
 It is the first time the latter party is mentioned as opposed to
 Christ.
    \\A sign from heaven.\\ Some mighty, visible miracle. See
 # 12:38
 Still in Paul's time "the Jews required a sign."
 # 1Co 1:22
 (PNT 92)
00531
 # Mt 16:3
    \\Can ye not [discern] the signs of the times.\\ They could
 read the weather, but were blind to the events (signs of the
 times) that showed the fulfilment of prophecy, the end of the
 Jewish dispensation, and the establishment of the Messiah's
 kingdom.
 (PNT 92)
00532
 # Mt 16:4
    \\The sign of the prophet Jonah.\\
    See note on "Mt 12:39"
    See note on "Mt 12:40"
 (PNT 92)
00533
 # Mt 16:5
    \\His disciples had come to the other side.\\ They crossed
 over the sea to the eastern shore.
    \\Had forgotten to take bread.\\ They had started on a
 journey to Caesarea Philippi, partly through a wilderness
 country, and would need a supply. Mark says that they had one
 loaf. Compare
 # Mr 8:14-21
 (PNT 92)
00534
 # Mt 16:6
    \\Beware of the leaven,\\ etc. The teaching and influence
 which spreads like leaven. See
 # 16:12
 The figure of the leaven was suggested by their need of bread.
    \\Sadducees.\\ Mark instead of Sadducees, says, "of Herod."
 # Mr 8:15
 Herod and his followers were Sadducees.
 (PNT 92)
00535
 # Mt 16:7-11
    \\[It is] because we have taken no bread.\\ The thoughts of
 the disciples were so fixed upon their failure to supply bread
 that they thought the remark about leaven contained a rebuke.
 The Lord reminds them of his creative power, and how it has been
 put forth.
 (PNT 92)
00541
 # Mt 16:13
    \\When Jesus came into the borders of Caesarea Philippi.\\
 Compare
 # Mr 8:27-38 Lu 9:18-22
 This city was located near the base of Mt. Hermon, at a source
 of the Jordan, and in the northeast extremity of Palestine. It
 was called Caesarea Philippi by Herod Philip, who rebuilt it in
 honour of Tiberius Caesar, and added Philippi after his own name,
 to distinguish it from Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast. It
 has now about fifty houses, many ruins of columns, towers,
 temples, a bridge, and a remarkable castle.
    \\Who do men say that I the Son of man am?\\ The original
 Greek is more specific, and means, "Who do the common people say
 that I am?" He does not ask for the opinion of the scribes,
 Pharisees, or priests, but of the people.
 (PNT 93)
00542
 # Mt 16:14
    \\Some [say that thou art] John the Baptist.\\ Who had been
 killed by Herod a few months before. That was one popular notion
 regarding him, circulating, no doubt, chiefly among those who
 had never seen him. Herod Antipas entertained it.
 # 14:1
    \\Elijah.\\ It was very generally expected that Elijah was to
 return to the earth in connection with the Messiah's advent.
 # Mal 4:5
    \\One of the prophets.\\ The Jews believed that at the coming
 of the Messiah the prophets were to rise again.
 (PNT 93)
00543
 # Mt 16:15
    \\But who say ye that I am?\\ This is the great and smaller
 catechism, the one great and essential question. Christ is the
 one object of the Christian's faith. We say we believe in him;
 but in whom do we believe? The hour had not come for the
 settlement of what should constitute the Christian confession.
 (PNT 93)
00544
 # Mt 16:16
    \\And Simon Peter answered.\\ With the impetuosity and
 impulsiveness that were ever manifested in him, Peter replied at
 once and expressed the faith of all the apostolic band.
    \\Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.\\ This
 confession not only sees in Jesus the promised Messiah, but in
 the Messiah recognizes the divine nature. The confession of
 Peter is the one Christian confession of the NT and of the
 apostolic age, and the very foundation of the church, into which
 all saints are built as living stones of the temple.
 (PNT 93)
00545
 # Mt 16:17
    \\Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona.\\ Happy are all lips that
 make this confession, for such shall be confessed before the
 Father in heaven.
    \\For flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] to thee, but my
 \\Father.\\ This holy and blessed confession no one can make
 from the heart unless he is moved by the Spirit. See
 # 1Jo 4:1,2
 (PNT 93)
00546
 # Mt 16:18
    \\Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
 \\church.\\ This is the first time Jesus speaks of his church,
 and here, as not yet founded.
    Three terms are to be noted:
 (1) \\Peter\\, in the Greek, \\Petros\\, meaning a single stone;
 (2) \\Rock\\, in the Greek, \\Petra\\, which means the solid,
     immovable bed-rock, a great mass like a cliff, and
 (3) \\church\\, Greek, \\ecclesia\\, those "called out," the
     fellowship of believers, the organized society of Christ,
     the kingdom of heaven on earth.
    There is probably no passage in the word of God that has
 called forth more discussion. The Papal church insists that
 Peter is the rock upon which Christ founded his church. The
 Catholic position is based upon the fact that Peter means a
 stone, and the Saviour's language might be rendered, "Thou art a
 stone and upon this rock I will build my church."
 # Joh 1:42
    The Catholic view is untenable, for
 (1) The Saviour does not say, "Thou art a stone, and upon thee I
     will build," etc., or "Thou art a rock, and upon this rock
     I will build." He changes the word in the Greek from
     \\Petros\\ (Peter, a stone) to \\Petra\\, a rock, or ledge
     of rock--a solid bed-rock.
 (2) Every saint is a stone. See
     # 1Pe 2:5
     The Lord declares that Peter is one these living stones,
     made such by his confession of faith, and ready to be built
     into the church, the spiritual temple, formed of living
     stones, and built upon the rock. So is every confessor of
     Christ. In order to settle what the Saviour does mean by the
     \\rock\\, we must consider the 18th and 19th verses
     together, and keep in mind the entire figure.
    This figure portrays
 (1) a Builder, Christ;
 (2) a temple to be built, composed of lively stones, the church;
 (3) a foundation for that temple, the rock;
 (4) the gates of an unfriendly city or power which shall seek
     its destruction, hell, or more correctly, \\Hades\\, the
     unseen abode of the dead, the grave;
 (5) a door-keeper of the church, or spiritual temple, with his
     keys, Peter.
    Peter's place in the figure is not that of the foundation,
 but that of the key-holder, or turnkey. The only difficulty is
 in settling what the Lord means by the \\rock.\\ Since this rock
 is the foundation of the church, the central principle, the
 fundamental idea, we are aided to a correct decision by the
 teachings of the Word elsewhere. We learn [through Paul] "That
 other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is
 Jesus Christ." This excludes Peter or any human platform.
 # 1Co 3:11
    Christ is often called a stone:
 (1) "the stone that the builders rejected"
     # 21:42 Mr 12:10 Lu 20:17
 (2) "the chief corner stone"
     # Eph 2:20
 (3) "the stone that is the head of the corner"
     # 21:42 Mr 12:10 Lu 20:17 Ac 4:11 1Pe 2:7
 (4) "the spiritual rock which is Christ"
     # 1Co 10:4
     Faith in Christ held in the heart, and confessed with the
 lips is the very foundation of the spiritual life and of the
 church. This constituted the fundamental difference in apostolic
 days between Christians and unbelievers, the church and the
 world. It does still. It is the essence of the teaching of the
 NT that the platform or foundation of the Christian society, the
 church, is this belief that "Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the
 living God." It is then Peter's grand confession, faith in the
 Spiritual Rock, the faith that lays hold of Christ, belief that
 he is the Anointed of God, the Divine Saviour, that the Lord
 pronounces the rock upon which he will found his church. That
 this view is correct is shown by a correct understanding of the
 declaration.
    \\The gates of Hades shall not prevail against it\\ (ASV).
 From the gates of the city always marched forth its armies. The
 powers of \\hades\\ are represented by its gates. \\Hades\\ is
 not hell \\(Gehenna)\\, but the unseen abode of the dead that
 holds the departed within its gates. Just after these words the
 Lord talks of his death, or entering hades. Six months later the
 Sanhedrin sent him to death for making the same confession Peter
 had just made. See
 # 26:64-67
 They expected to demonstrate that the confession of his divinity
 which he had made was false by sending him to \\hades\\, which
 they supposed would hold him and prevail against the confession
 of the ROCK. He was sent there from the cross, but the gates of
 hades did not prevail, for they could not hold him, and the
 living Saviour, rising triumphant from the tomb, was the
 unanswerable argument that his own and Peter's confession was a
 rock that could never be moved. His resurrection demonstrated
 that he is the Rock. Hades did not prevail.
 (PNT 93-94)
00547
 # Mt 16:19
    \\I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the
 \\heaven.\\ That is, of the church. The office of the keys is to
 open the doors, or close them. On Pentecost, Peter first opened
 the doors and declared the conditions of which men could have
 their sins forgiven, be bound or loosed, and thus enter into the
 church. Seven years later at Caesarea he declared the same
 conditions to the Gentiles. While Peter took the lead the keys
 were given to all the apostles, and to no other mortal. See
 # 18:18 Joh 20:19-28
 All that is here said to Peter is said to all the apostles.
 (PNT 94)
00549
 # Mt 16:21
    \\From that time forth Jesus began to show to his
 \\disciples.\\ They were not strong enough to bear this teaching
 until they were convinced of his divinity.
    \\And suffer many things.\\ In this strange way carrying out
 the true idea of the Messiah.
 # Isa 53:1-12
    \\From the elders and chief priests and scribes.\\ The three
 constituents of the Sanhedrin.
 (PNT 94-95)