matthew 21:12; mark 11:15

That is why I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken from you, and will be given to a nation which produces its fruits. And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offence, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. they asked; and the crowds said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, who comes from Nazareth in Galilee.". It was the second time when there was this most ample invitation which left no excuse for man, that they not only would not come, going one to his farm, and another to his merchandize, but "the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully and slew them," This was not the character of the reception given to the apostles during our Lord's lifetime, but exactly what transpired after His death. The only thing is that they were gouging the people. Loose them, and bring them to me. This temple, erected with great magnificence, remained until it was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar, 584 years before Christ, 2 Chronicles 36:6-7, 2 Chronicles 36:19. On the east, north, and west it was quite narrow. It is not a question of any general issue that would apply to a course of ages, as to the present preaching of God's grace, or to the ordinary current of men's lives. . On that day the people carried the palm branches and sung their psalms; it is an almost exact description of the actions of the crowd who welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem. Matthew 21:12-17 describes Jesus' entrance into the massive Jewish temple in Jerusalem during what we now call Holy Week. "When a man went to an exchanger, and changed a shekel for two half shekels, he gave him an addition to the shekel; and the addition is called "Kolbon"; wherefore, when two men gave a shekel for them both, they were both obliged to pay the "Kolbon".''. 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Quand il commena exercr son office dambassadeur. But there is a further thing brought out here, in a very distinctive manner. 10And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? & Bartenora in Misn. Thus we have had our Lord presenting Himself as Jehovah the King; we have had the various classes putting themselves forward to judge Him, but, in fact, judged themselves by Him, There remains another scene of great interest, linking itself on to His farewell to the nation just noticed. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! It was in no, way, so to speak, the accidental circumstance of how they behaved in one particular generation. The notion that they are Christians who lack intelligence in prophecy seems to me not false only, but utterly unworthy of a spiritual mind. If He be David's Lord, how is He David's Son? And said It is written - This is written in Isaiah 56:7. The Lord that sat in the heavens had them in derision. The events Matthew recorded in chapters 21-28 happened within six days. For from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. It might be a money rent; it might be a fixed amount of the fruit, no matter what the crop might be; and it might be an agreed percentage of the crop. It is at least possible that Jesus knew this, and that he entered into Jerusalem with the deliberate intention of cleansing God's house as Judas Maccabaeus had done two hundred years before. Commentary on Matthew 21:1-17 - Working Preacher (ii) It shows us his anger was specially directed against those who made it impossible for simple people to worship in the House of God. The beautiful end of Matthew is, that (while chief priests and elders essay to cover their wickedness by falsehood and bribery, and their lie "is commonly reported among the Jews until this day,") our Lord meets His disciples on a mountain in Galilee, according to His appointment, and sends them to disciple all the Gentiles. The Lord goes on and meets parabolically a wider question than that of the rulers, gradually enlarging the scope, till He terminates these instructions inMatthew 22:14; Matthew 22:14. And that was what Jesus was doing when he entered Jerusalem. Immediately the fig tree withered away. They were sucklings, out of whose mouth praise was ordained for the despised Messiah soon to be in heaven, exalted there and preached here as the once crucified and now glorified Son of man. The principle fully applied then, as it will in the latter day; the Church scene coming in meanwhile as a parenthesis. Thereupon, though in marvellous patience the blow was suspended for years, nevertheless judgment came at last. And who gave you this authority?" Such allies now joined hypocritically against the Lord. True courtesy is obedience, willingly and graciously given. And they sought to lay hands on him, but they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet ( Matthew 21:43-46 ). Yet does He accomplish everything, when He was but a sufferer; they nothing, when free to do all (for it was their hour, and the power of darkness) nothing but their iniquity; but even in their iniquity doing the will of God, spite of themselves, and contrary to their own plans. 12 Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. [2.] On the other hand the parable teaches us that a man can easily spoil a good thing by the way he does it. Present application of the truth is lacking, the sword of the Spirit is no longer in the hands of those who wielded it so well To honour those who have passed away is the cheapest means, on the contrary, for acquiring credit for the men of this generation. He was here offering himself to the people, at a time when Jerusalem was surging with Jews from all over the country and from all over the world, as the Anointed One of God. Nothing is more easily asked by those who assume that their own title is unimpeachable. God is no tyrannical task-master; he is like a wise commander who allocates a task and then trusts a man to do it. In Jesus that is inconceivable; therefore there must be some explanation. He was not delivered from that situation; he was made able to accept it; and in that very situation he discovered the strength that was made perfect in his weakness and the grace which was sufficient for all things--and in that strength and grace the situation was not only accepted, but also transformed into glory ( 2 Corinthians 12:1-10). There is no necessity to suppose that Matthew deliberately designed the result which we have in his gospel. Donald C. Coggins, Jr., District Judge. Matthew 21:12 NIV - Jesus at the Temple - Bible Gateway Save on BibleGateway+ with code FAITH. He was of the tribe of "Judah," and he consequently was allowed to enter no further than the other Israelites into the temple. This promise was evidently a special one, given to them in regard to working miracles. Further, these stalls where the victims were sold were called the Bazaars of Annas, and were the private property of the family of the High Priest of that name. So he too said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.". God was more pleased with Jesus action in healing the blind and the crippled than with all the religious activity of the Jews. But as these words applied literally then, so I conceive will it be at a future day. These walks or porches afforded a grateful shade and protection to the people in hot or stormy weather. But what we contemplate from the side of resurrection is not itself, but the death of Jesus. Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he was hungry. Doves, or pigeons, are an essential part of ritual purifications (John 11:55; Leviticus 15:14; Leviticus 15:29) but are mainly sacrifices for the poor (Leviticus 5:7; Luke 2:22-24). It surpassed in splendor all the other buildings of the holy city; perhaps in magnificence it was unequalled in the world. We must always remember that prayer does not bring deliverance from a situation; it brings conquest of it. They greeted him as they would greet a pilgrim, for the greeting: "Blessed be he who enters in the name of the Lord" ( Psalms 118:26) was the greeting which was addressed to pilgrims as they came to the Feast. Mark gives his report very particularly in connection with the testimony of God, as I hope to show when we come to that point. At the paschal feast He takes up the bread and the wine, and consecrates them to be on earth the continual remembrance of Himself in the midst of His own. I do acknowledge that they are worse than stupid who are not displeased at the pollution of the temple of God, and that it is not enough for them to be inwardly distressed, if they do not avoid the contagion, and testify with their mouth, whenever an opportunity presents itself, that they desire to see a change for the better. 1 Now # Mark 11:1-10; Luke 19:29-38 when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, . Prayer does not remove the tragedy; it does not give us escape from the situation; it does not give us exemption from the task; but it does make us able to bear the unbearable, to face the unfaceable, to pass the breaking point and not to break. And Christ inveighed against it the more sharply, because it was well known that this custom had been introduced by the avarice of the priests for the sake of dishonest gain. 21:12-17. See notes on Joh 2:13-17. While in Jerusalem during the last week of His life, Jesus cleansed the temple for the second time and healed those who came to Him. We'll offer this one. The latter scene of the chapter is, to a simple mind, evident enough. Out of many Old Testament instances we choose two of the most outstanding. And then He points back to John, how that the publicans and harlots went out and repented, and were baptized; but how they, even after they saw it and realized, would not even afterward repent. If you fall upon Him in repentance, you will be broken, true, but you'll come into a new, full, rich life. , "Collybistae", in this text, or the gain which these men had, take this question and answer in their own words z. Even the action of the cultivators was not out of the common. In this Court of the Gentiles two kinds of trading were going on. This passage concludes with certain words of Jesus about the dynamic of prayer. There are two great examples of that in the New Testament. Thus, in Luke, there is a remarkable display of grace and love to the despised poor in Israel; then, further, that love enlarging its sphere, and going out to the highways and hedges to bring in the poor that were there the poor in the city the poor everywhere. It must, therefore, be approached with a real desire to find out the truth which lies behind it and with the courage to think our way through it. And then as you go in to verse twenty-five of Psalms 118 , the Hebrew is Hosanna, "Save now, I beseech thee O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. Accordingly He closes with these words, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world [age]." The Cleansing of the Temple (HTML) - Thirdmill They had been approved by the priest. And the blind and the lame came to him in the Temple and he healed them. He did not die because he was compelled to die; he went willingly and open-eyed to death. Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately you're going to find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. Was it without moral import? Prayer is not a means of running away from a situation; it is a means whereby we may gallantly face it. Next the Lord* launches out woe after woe against the Scribes and Pharisees. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. Yet, just as the blessed Lord, after pronouncing woes on Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, that had rejected His words and works, turned at once to the infinite resources of grace, and from the depth of His own glory brought in the secret of better things to the poor and needy; so it was that even at this time, just before He gave utterance to these woes (so solemn and fatal to the proud religious guides of Israel), He had, as we know from Luke 19:1-48, wept over the guilty city, out of which, as His servants, so their Lord could not perish. In Acts 4, the praying people of God spoke of Your holy Servant Jesus ( Acts 4:27, 4:30 ). What was the language, the thought of the people now, and by whom inspired? Matei 12:19-21,Matthew 12:19-21 NIV - BibleGateway.com The rich shall not give more, c.--All are bound to give it, priests, Levites, and Israelites, and strangers, and servants, that are made free but not women, nor servants, nor children.''. Such is worldly religion and its heads: the great obstructions to divine knowledge, instead of living only to be its channels of communication; narrow, where they should have been large; cold and lukewarm for God, earnest only for self; daring sophists, where divine obligations lay deep, and punctilious pettifoggers in the smallest details, straining at the gnat and swallowing the camel; anxious only for the outside, reckless as to all that lay concealed underneath. The kingdom was then come in His own person, as is said by Matthew (Matthew 12:1-50) as well as Luke. The latter may be the simpler application of the two, and evidently more familiar to ordinary thought; but there seems no real reason to question, that if the one be meant symbolically, so too is the other. The Spirit really wrote, "Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour." What appears further here is, that Jesus does not put the blessing off till His reign. But if, as with Matthew, the object be the great change of dispensation consequent on the rejection of the divine Messiah, (particularly if the point, as here, be not the opening out of coming mercy, but, on the contrary, a solemn and a stern judgment on Israel,) the Spirit of God contents Himself with a general notice of the painful scene, without indulging in any circumstantial account of it. but, "What is it safe to say?" And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And then that, and there is so much to be said concerning the stone which was set up, not of the builders. PDF 7 Before the Criminal Justice Training Commission in And for The State The son who came last is none other than Jesus himself. And that person who is a disciple, the person who has denied himself to take up his cross to follow Jesus Christ, is more concerned in God's will, than he is his own will. The cultivators are the religious leaders of Israel, who as it were had charge for God of the welfare of the nation. There is such a thing as the deliberately assumed ignorance of cowardice. Matthew 21:12-17 NIV. It is most eminently a Jewish character and circumstance of persecution; as the aim was the retributive one, "that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. But Jesus isn't just a servant. The first is borne on the old wood. THE EXPEDIENT IGNORANCE ( Matthew 21:23-27 ), 21:23-27 When Jesus had come into the Temple precincts, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. It was indeed the power of the Spirit of God that controlled his heart; even as to Christ "the porter opened." After J esus triumphantly entered Jerusalem with shouts of Hosanna, Matthew wrote He entered the . Now all of this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. In Elizabethan English presently meant immediately, at that present moment. The lesson of the fig tree. Before we treat it in detail, let us set these identifications down. Jesus said to them, "Yes! A. 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. Matthew 21 - New International Version NIV | Biblica The hedge was a thick-set thorn hedge, designed to keep out both the wild boars who might ravage the vineyard, and the thieves who might steal the grapes. The second is Isaiah 28:16: "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation." 7. Leviticus 1:14 And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. They must not imagine that it would be like an ordinary judgment in providence, which sweeps here, not there, and sweeps here indiscriminately. B. Jesus presentation of Himself to Israel as her King 21:1-17. He would not turn stones into bread to satisfy his own hunger. This ought to be observed, lest any private individual should think himself entitled to act in the same manner. Matthew shows us not only the consequences of the rejection of the Messiah to Israel, but the change of dispensation, or what would follow on their fatal opposition to One who was their King, yea, not only Messiah, but Jehovah. In the temple - That is, in the outer court of it, where the Gentiles used to worship. But it is the fig tree's habit of fruit-bearing which is relevant here. If, on the contrary, the resurrection day brings no more before me than the resurrection, it is too plain that the death of Christ has lost its infinite grace for my soul. We next see our Lord, not with the disciples, failing, false, or traitorous, but His hour come, in the power of the hostile world, priests, governors, soldiers, and people. James said, "you ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you might consume it upon your own lust"( James 4:3 ). Pilgrims came from all parts of the world to keep the Passover, to offer their sacrifices, sin-offerings, or thank-offerings, according to the circumstances of each case. As the Son of God, Jesus cannot sit idly by and watch His Fathers house turned into such a mockery, so He rids the Temple of these unwarranted parasites. When great things are brought about by weak and unlikely instruments, God is thereby much honoured, for his strength is perfected in weakness, and the infirmities of the babes and sucklings serve for a foil to the divine power. The resurrection, no doubt, is the power that manifests and proclaims all; but what it proclaims is the power of His death, because that alone has vindicated God morally. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? Those who remember the state of the great cathedral of London, as painted in the literature of Elizabeth and James, when mules and horses laden with market produce, were led through St. Pauls as a matter of every-day occurrence, and bargains were struck there, and burglaries planned, and servants hired, and profligate assignations made and kept, will feel that even Christian and Protestant England has hardly the right to cast a stone at the priests and people of Jerusalem. And except ye repent, the preaching of John shall condemn you in the day of judgment JST Matt. If the Church of God have contracted any pollutions, all the children of God ought to burn with grief; but as God has not put arms into the hands of all, let private individuals groan, till God bring the remedy. A double proof of this appears in what has been just advanced. The rent might be paid in any of three ways. Matthew 21: 12-17 Turning Tables and the Temple Upside Down (Matthew 24:7 & Luke 21:11) 2) Increasing lawlessness and violence. In the time of Jesus, Palestine was a troubled place with little luxury; it was, therefore, very familiar with absentee landlords, who let out their estates and were interested only in collecting the rental at the right time. Josephus says that in the rising of the sun it reflected so strong and dazzling an effulgence that the eye of the spectator was obliged to turn away. And Jesus went into the temple of God. At that time they gave two pence for the half shekel, the "Kolbon" was half a "meah", which is the twelfth part of a penny; and since, "Kolbon" less than that is not given.''. Christ's healing was a real answer to that question, Who is this? The religious leaders also accommodated worshippers by selling animals used in the offerings of Judaism there.
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