Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. of I am certain that everyone that was afflicted had heard of the fame of Jesus. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. The last shall be first, and the first last. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the. So Gregory of Nyssa has a strange idea. After Paul had preached on Mars Hill, there were those who said, "We will hear you again about this" ( Acts 17:32). When that great saint Toyohiko Kagawa first came into contact with Christianity, he felt its fascination, until one day the cry burst from him: "O God, make me like Christ." Rather than seeking God as to whether or not you should buy a new car, you had to seek your elder or your shepherd. God turns away none that are willing to be hired, for yet there is room. Jesus came to give his life a ransom for many. The slum dwellers of Tokyo laughed at him, but they came to respect him. "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! The Old Testament (Matthew 19:30.) 1. As we have seen, the pay was 4 pence a day; and, if they were unemployed for one day, the children would go hungry at home, for no man ever saved much out of 4 pence a day. Even when they were bluntly told that there lay ahead a bitter cup, it never struck them to turn back; they were determined to drink it. Jesus will use this story to answer a question from Matthew 19:27: See, we have left all and followed You. (Matthew 20:20-21) The mother of James and John asks for a place of special status for her sons. Apart from the method of payment, the parable describes the kind of thing that frequently happened at certain times in Palestine. c. And they immediately followed Him: This was a great result. They were not attached to any group; they were entirely at the mercy of chance employment; they were always living on the semi-starvation line. Before he goes to Church let him visit the hospital. Poetical Books Possibly the first felt their vanity wounded by being paid after the others. If it be so, it is surely a ground of thankfulness to God; for it turns a stumbling-block into an evidence of the perfection of Scripture. First, The general pay (Matthew 20:9; Matthew 20:10); They received every man a penny. So He is telling the disciples this was going to happen. Many words are not now required for that which is happily familiar to most here. Having left Nazareth, as we saw, He takes up His abode in Capernaum, which was henceforth "His own city." When Paul, that faithful labourer, departs, he is with Christ presently. The Gospels Pentateuch Warning them against that casual, careless attitudes in which many of them were receiving it. ESV Text Edition: 2016. But this, though perhaps legitimate enough as an application of the parable, is clearly secondary and subordinate, and must not be allowed to obscure its primary intention. "Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?" Nor is this all. it was not for the whole the Physician was needed. He sits on the dust heap among the prison convicts. Here is demonstrated the new glory and the new greatness of suffering love and sacrificial service. Who could touch the leper save Emmanuel? Hence, he waits to present their rejection of the Messiah, as morally complete as possible in his statement of it, though necessarily not complete in outward accomplishment. To my mind, the depth of such grace only enhances the beauty of Jesus, and is the very last possible ground that justifies man in thinking lightly of the Saviour. When they had divided among them the command of the four legions to be formed, the consuls summoned to the capitol, or Campus Martius, all the citizens who, by their age, were obliged to bear arms. ". All this is what happens when men take the poetry of love and try to turn it into man-made theories. But they were so desperate, they weren't discouraged, they even cried louder, "Jesus, thou son of David have mercy on us. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. He would not even claim the right to choose how His servants were rewarded, but yield that to His Father. What instrument so suitable? People simply do not and cannot MERIT salvation. They looked at one another, and they tried to fathom where there was no depth, but where the truth lay on the surface. (Spurgeon), vi. Nothing was more a mystery in the gospel dispensation than the rejection of the Jews and the calling in of the Gentiles; so the apostle speaks of it (Ephesians 3:3-6); that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs: nor was any thing more provoking to the Jews than the intimation of it. The promise of Matthew 19:28 forms the background to this request; the thrones are already assured, leaving only the question of precedence. (France). "Lord, save us; we perish," cried they, as they awoke Him; and He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. The Lord has nothing for them, or for Him, but to go right on to the end. . That scourging was for you. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. They confess their faith, and He touches their eyes. He answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Where did they come from? It adds to the reason for this interpretation, that Christ was conversing about the rewards that should be given to his followers, and not about the numbers that should be called, or about the doctrine of election. 1. About five o'clock in the evening he went out and found others standing there, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here the whole day idle?' Lord cometh, his reward is with him, to give unto every man according as his work shall be, as one star differeth from another star in glory, so shall it be. But Luke saith, they understood none of these things; that is, surely they believed none of them, the saying was hid from them. (Poole), v. When our Lord told the twelve that he would die, they imagined that it was a parable, concealing some deep mystery. In this he had laboured, as he said, from his youth up: "What lack I yet?" Certainly, He did not arrange His own betrayal. But the parable may be applied more generally, and shows us, 1. Finally, he was to be crucified; there we see the ultimate suffering of death. "And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth." First of these comes the treasure hidden in the field, for which the man sells all he had, securing the field for the sake of the treasure. Or is your eye evil because I am good? The man that was not called promises to go anywhere, in his own strength; but the man that was called feels the difficulty, and pleads a natural duty before following Jesus. It should also encourage us in reference to the hardships and difficulties of our work, that it is but for a day; the approaching shadow, which the servant earnestly desireth, will bring with it both rest, and the reward of our work,Job 7:2. (iii) These two blind men had an imperfect faith but they were determined to act on the faith they had. When the legions were thus completed, the citizens who had been called, but not chosen, returned to their respective employments, and served their country in other capacities. When a person's ministry gets so great, and they become so prominent that they lose touch with people, and they can no longer minister to people's individual needs, their ministry has become greater than their Lord. They measured Jesus by their own impotence. Minor Prophets II. And if thou hast what thou didst agree for, thou hast no reason to cry out of wrong; thou shalt have what we agreed for." WATCH TO FIND OUT WHAT THE CHALLENGE WAS Hey, Im Tia and my aim is to travel the world with my camera and of course my wonderful partner is coming along and enjoying the ride with me ! If I assume from the words "set forth in order," in the beginning of Luke's gospel, that therefore his is the chronological account, it will only lead me into confusion, both as to Luke and the other gospels; for proofs abound that the order of Luke, most methodical as he is, is by no means absolutely that of time. Instead of repining that we have no more, let us take what we have, and be thankful. The hours in the parable were the normal Jewish hours. We seem completely borne away from the ordinary level of our gospel to the higher region of the disciple whom Jesus loved. The glory of Christ's person strengthens us, not only to understand His cross, but to take up ours. Your partnership makes all we do possible. But at the end, when His disciples are in the extremity of trouble, in the midst of the sea, the Lord walks on the sea toward them, and bids them not fear; for they were troubled and afraid. It is simply designed to teach that in the church, among the multitudes who will be saved, Christ makes a difference. First, it sheds a light on the disciples. First, Some are effectually called, and begin to work in the vineyard when they are very young; are sent in early in the morning, whose tender years are seasoned with grace, and the remembrance of their Creator. Matthew 19:1-30 brings in another lesson of great weight. It is enough to meet a difficulty which many feel by the simple plea that the reason assigned is in my judgment a valid explanation, and in itself a sufficient solution of the apparent discrepancy. Then, after the parable of the mustard seed (ver. And because they were sent of God, they each one received from the Lord that same portion.Sometimes we see people who on their deathbed receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and they enter into eternal life. 2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. If this be a sound judgment, the comparison of the first chapter of Mark affords decisive evidence that the Holy Ghost in Matthew has taken the leper out of the mere time and circumstances of actual occurrence, and has reserved his case for a wholly different service. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. So, when more is added, He says, "All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. His word should silence all our murmurings, that, whatever God does to us, or withholds from us, he does us no wrong. a. To heal was the work for which He was come. In the kingdom so much the less sparing is the retribution of those who despise or abuse grace. Now they no doubt had heard of the fame of Jesus. 2. Yet is He the Son of man who hath power on earth to forgive sins; and He uses His authority. Jesus purpose in telling this story was to illustrate what he had just said concerning Gods unexpected gift to those who at present appear to be disadvantaged (see Matthew 19:30). Now what is Jesus seeking to teach by this parable of sending forth the laborers into the vineyard? And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.. It begins with a well-known scene but then introduces surprising elements to make a powerful point. yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee. Matthew chapter 20 New International Version 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. There may have been a very natural reason for this request. These blind men received their sight from Jesus, and then they gave to him their grateful loyalty. Plainly, the church isnt to operate the way the world does. And Jesus stood still, and he called them, and said, What do you want me to do for you? He was quite clear that there was a bitter cup to be drunk and did not hesitate to say so. It is not an accident that Jesus was scourged. Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Johannine Writings b. But the future is in view also. [4.] He here is predicting the fact that He is going to be scourged. To mock and to scourge: Jesus predicted these specific aspects of His coming agony which on a human level He could not arrange. We have here. The evil spirits asked leave to pass into the herd of swine, which thus typify the final condition of the defiled, apostate mass of Israel; their presumptuous and impenitent unbelief reduces them to that deep degradation not merely the unclean, but the unclean filled with the power of Satan, and carried down to swift destruction.