Mat 12:1-14, Mar 2:23-3:6, Luk 6:1-11, 13:10-17, Joh 5:9, 16, 7:21-23 | TSK | STEP | Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees concerning the breach of the sabbath, by scripture, by reason, and by a miracle. He heals a man possessed that was blind and dumb; and confuting the absurd charge of casting out devils by Beelzebub, he shows that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven. Account shall be made of idle words. He rebukes the unfaithful, who seek after a sign, and shows who is his brother, sister, and mother. went. to pluck.

what.This was an {argumentum ad hominem.} The Jews held that such things were lawful on the sabbath day, and our Saviour very properly appealed to their canons in vindication of his intention to heal the distressed man.

Lu 13:15-17; 14:5

and if.

Ex 23:4,5; De 22:4

is a.

6:26; Lu 12:24

it is.

Mr 3:4; Lu 6:9

and it.

Lu 13:13; Ac 3:7,8

went.

27:1; Mr 3:6; Lu 6:11; Joh 5:18; 10:39; 11:53,57

held a council. or, took counsel.

Mark 2:23-28

that.

Mt 12:1-8; Lu 6:1-5

to pluck.

De 23:24,25

why.

7,16; Mt 7:3-5; 15:2,3; 23:23,24; Heb 12:3

that.

Ex 20:10; 31:15; 35:2,3; Nu 15:32-36; Ne 13:15-22; Isa 56:2,4,6

Isa 58:13; Jer 17:20-27

Have.

12:20,26; Mt 19:4; 21:16,42; 22:31; Lu 10:26

what.

1Sa 21:3-6

Abiathar.It appears from the passage referred to here, that Ahimelech was then high priest at Nob; and from other passages, that Abiathar was his son. Various conjectures have been formed in order to solve this difficulty; and some, instead of untying, have cut the knot, by pronouncing it an interpolation. The most probable opinion seems to be, that both father and son had two names, the father being also called Abiathar; and this appears almost certain from 2 Sa 8:17; 1 Ch 18:16, where Ahimelech seems evidently termed Abiathar, while Abiathar is called Ahimelech or Abimelech. (Compare 1 Ki 2:26, 27.)

1Sa 22:20-22; 23:6,9; 2Sa 8:17; 15:24,29,35; 20:25; 1Ki 1:7

1Ki 2:22,26,27; 4:4

which is not lawful.

Ex 29:32,33; Le 24:5-9

Ex 23:12; De 5:14; Ne 9:13,14; Isa 58:13; Eze 20:12,20; Lu 6:9

Joh 7:23; 1Co 3:21,22; 2Co 4:15; Col 2:16

3:4; Mt 12:8; Lu 6:5; 13:15,16; Joh 5:9-11,17; 9:5-11,14,16

Eph 1:22; Re 1:10

Mark 3:1-6

1 Christ heals the withered hand,

10 and many other infirmities;

11 rebukes the unclean spirit;

13 chooses his twelve apostles;

22 convinces the blasphemy of casting out devils by Beelzebub;

31 and shows who are his brother, sister, and mother.

he entered.

1:21; Mt 12:9-14; Lu 6:6-11

withered.

1Ki 13:4; Joh 5:3

Ps 37:32; Isa 29:20,21; Jer 20:10; Da 6:4; Lu 6:7; 11:53,54; 14:1

Lu 20:20; Joh 9:16

he saith.

Isa 42:4; Da 6:10; Lu 6:8; Joh 9:4; 1Co 15:58; Ga 6:9

Php 1:14,28-30; 1Pe 4:1

Stand forth. or, Arise, stand forth in the midst.

Is it.

2:27,28; Ho 6:6; Mt 12:10-12; Lu 6:9; 13:13-17; 14:1-5

But.

9:34

with anger.With anger at their desperate malice and wickedness, and with commiseration for the calamities which they would thereby bring on themselves.

Lu 6:10; 13:15; Eph 4:26; Re 6:16

grieved.

Ge 6:6; Jud 10:16; Ne 13:8; Ps 95:10; Isa 63:9,10; Lu 19:40-44

Eph 4:30; Heb 3:10,17

hardness. or, blindness.

Isa 6:9,10; 42:18-20; 44:18-20; Mt 13:14,15; Ro 11:7-10,25

2Co 3:14; Eph 4:18

Stretch.

1Ki 13:6; Mt 12:13; Lu 6:10; 17:14; Joh 5:8,9; 9:7; Heb 5:9

Pharisees.

Ps 109:3,4; Mt 12:14; Lu 6:11; 20:19,20; 22:2; Joh 11:53

Herodians.

8:15; 12:13; Mt 22:16

Luke 6:1-11

1 Christ reproves the Pharisees;

12 chooses apostles;

17 heals the diseased;

20 preaches to his disciples before the people.

the second.

Ex 12:15; Le 23:7,10,11,15; De 16:9

that.

Mt 12:1-8; Mr 2:23-28

and his.

De 23:25

Why.

7-9; 5:33; Mt 12:2; 15:2; 23:23,24; Mr 2:24; Joh 5:9-11,16; 9:14-16

not.

Ex 22:10; 31:15; 35:2; Nu 15:32-35; Isa 58:13

Have.

Mt 12:3,5; 19:4; 21:16,42; 22:31; Mr 2:25; 12:10,26

what.

1Sa 21:3-6; Mt 12:3,4; Mr 2:25,26

which.

Le 24:5-9

Mt 11:5-8; Mr 2:27; 9:7; Re 1:10

it came.

Mt 12:9-14; Mr 3:1-6

he.

4:16,31; 13:10,13,14; 14:3; Mt 4:23; Joh 9:16

there.

1Ki 13:4; Zec 11:17; Joh 5:3

watched.

13:14; 14:1-6; Ps 37:32,33; 38:12; Isa 29:21; Jer 20:10; Mr 3:2

Joh 5:10-16; 9:16,26-29

that.

11:53,54; 20:20; Mt 26:59,60

But.

5:22; 1Ch 28:9; 29:17; Job 42:2; Ps 44:21; Joh 2:25; 21:17; Heb 4:13

Re 2:23

Rise.

Isa 42:4; Joh 9:4; Ac 20:24; 26:26; Php 1:28; 1Pe 4:1

Is it.

14:3; Mt 12:12,13; Mr 3:4; Joh 7:19-23

to save.

9:56

Looking.

Mr 3:5

Stretch.

Ex 4:6,7; 1Ki 13:6; Ps 107:20; Joh 5:8

they.

4:28; Ps 2:1,2; Ec 9:3; Ac 5:33; 7:54; 26:11

communed.

Mt 12:14,15; 21:45; Joh 7:1; 11:47; Ac 4:15,19; 5:33

Luke 13:10-17

4:15,16,44

a spirit.

16; 8:2; Job 2:7; Ps 6:2; Mt 9:32,33

eighteen.

8:27,43; Mr 9:21; Joh 5:5,6; 9:19-21; Ac 3:2; 4:22; 14:8-10

bowed.

Ps 38:6; 42:5; *marg:

Ps 145:14; 146:8

Woman.

6:8-10; Ps 107:20; Isa 65:1; Mt 8:16

loosed.

16; Joe 3:10

he laid.

4:40; Mr 6:5; 8:25; 16:18; Ac 9:17

and immediately.

17:14-17; 18:43; Ps 103:1-5; 107:20-22; 116:16,17

the ruler.

8:41; Ac 13:15; 18:8,17

with.

6:11; Joh 5:15,16; Ro 10:2

There.

Ex 20:9; 23:12; Le 23:3; Eze 20:12

and not.

6:7; 14:3-6; Mt 12:10-12; Mr 3:2-6; Joh 9:14-16

Thou hypocrite.

6:42; 12:1; Job 34:30; Pr 11:9; Isa 29:20; Mt 7:5; 15:7,14; 23:13,28

Ac 8:20-23; 13:9,10

doth not.

14:5; Joh 7:21-24

being.

3:8; 16:24; 19:9; Ac 13:26; Ro 4:12-16

whom.

11; Joh 8:44; 2Ti 2:26

be loosed.

12; Mr 2:27

all his.

14:6; 20:40; Ps 40:14; 109:29; 132:18; Isa 45:24; 2Ti 3:9; 1Pe 3:16

and all.

19:37-40,48; Ex 15:11; Ps 111:3; Isa 4:2; Joh 12:17,18; Ac 3:9-11

Ac 4:21

John 5:9

immediately.

14; Mr 1:31,42; 5:29,41,42; 10:52; Ac 3:7,8

and on.

10-12; 7:23; 9:14; Mt 12:10-13; Mr 3:2-4; Lu 13:10-16

John 5:16

persecute.

15:20; Ac 9:4,5

and sought.

13; 7:19,20,25; 10:39; Mt 12:13; Mr 3:6; Lu 6:11

John 7:21-23

I have.

5:9-11

circumcision.

Ge 17:10-14; Le 12:3; Ro 4:9-11; Ga 3:17

that the law of Moses should not be broken. or, withoutbreaking the law of Moses.

Mt 12:5

I have made.Rather, "I have healed a whole man" [holos anthropos ,] and not the circumcised member only. This reasoning was in perfect accordance with the principles of the Jews. So Tanchuma, "Circumcision, which is performed on one of the 248 members of man, vacates the sabbath; how much more the whole body of a man!"

5:8,9,14-16