Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

before. The Gentiles came in at the eleventh hour; the gospel had not been before preached to them. Those that have had gospel o ...

true and substantial sacrifice, which those of the law faintly and imperfectly represented. It was a ransom for many, enough for ...

but none of them joined the multitude that did him honour. Those that take Christ for their King, must lay their all under his f ...

Parables which give reproof, speak plainly to the offenders, and judge them out of their own mouths. The parable of the two sons ...

food, but a royal feast, for the perishing souls of his rebellious creatures. There is enough and to spare, of every thing that ...

Verses 23–33 The doctrines of Christ displeased the infidel Sadducees, as well as the Pharisees and Herodians. He carried the gr ...

Chapter 23 Chapter Outline Jesus reproves the scribes and Pharisees. (1–12) Crimes of the Pharisees. (13–33) The guilt of Jerusa ...

fancy that they should have opposed the sins of former days. We sometimes think, if we had lived when Christ was upon earth, tha ...

Verses 4–28 The disciples had asked concerning the times, When these things should be? Christ gave them no answer to that; but t ...

will be mourners; but repenting sinners look to Christ, and mourn after a godly sort; and those who sow in those tears shall sho ...

The judgment. (31–46) Verses 1–13 The circumstances of the parable of the ten virgins were taken from the marriage customs among ...

We must all be reckoned with as to what good we have got to our own souls, and have done to others, by the advantages we have en ...

Chapter 26 Chapter Outline The rulers conspire against Christ. (1–5) Christ anointed at Bethany. (6–13) Judas bargains to betray ...

made that wicked bargain, Judas had time to repent, and to revoke it; but when lesser acts of dishonesty have hardened the consc ...

He who made atonement for the sins of mankind, submitted himself in a garden of suffering, to the will of God, from which man ha ...

remember we cannot expect to fare better than our Master. When Christ was made sin for us, he was silent, and left it to his blo ...

The burial of Christ. (57–61) The sepulchre secured. (62–66) Verses 1–10 Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crim ...

Crucifixion was a death used only among the Romans; it was very terrible and miserable. A cross was laid on the ground, to which ...

reproaches cast upon the word of God and the people of God, arise, as here, from gross mistakes. Christ, just before he expired, ...

On the Jewish sabbath, the chief priests and Pharisees, when they should have been at their devotions, were dealing with Pilate ...