Matthew Chapter 19
by Jameison-Faussett-Brown
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CHAPTER 19
Matthew
19:1-12.
Farewell to Galilee (Mt
19:1, 2).
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Verse 1. And it came to pass, that when
Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from
Galilee--This marks a very solemn period in our Lord's
public ministry. So slightly is it touched here, and in the
corresponding passage of Mark (Mr
10:1), that few readers probably note it as the Redeemer's
Farewell to Galilee, which however it was. See on the
sublime statement of Luke (Lu
9:51), which relates to the same transition stage in the
progress of our Lord's work.
and
came into the coasts--or, boundaries
of Judea beyond Jordan--that is, to the further,
or east side of the Jordan, into Perea, the dominions of Herod
Antipas. But though one might conclude from our Evangelist
that our Lord went straight from the one region to the other,
we know from the other Gospels that a considerable time
elapsed between the departure from the one and the arrival at
the other, during which many of the most important events in
our Lord's public life occurred--probably a large part of what
is recorded in Lu
9:51, onward to Lu 18:15, and part of Joh
7:2-11:54.
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Verse 2. And great multitudes followed
him; and he healed them there--Mark says further (Mr
10:1), that "as He was wont, He taught them there." What
we now have on the subject of divorce is some of that
teaching.
Divorce (Matthew
19:3-12).
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Verse 3. Is it lawful for a man to put
away his wife for every cause?--Two rival schools (as we
saw on Matthew
5:31) were divided on this question--a delicate one, as
- DE WETTE pertinently
remarks, in the dominions of Herod Antipas.
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Verse 4. And he answered and said unto
them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the
beginning made them male and female--or better, perhaps,
"He that made them made them from the beginning a male and a
female."
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Verse 5. And said, For this cause--to
follow out this divine appointment.
shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to
his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?--Jesus here
sends them back to the original constitution of man as one
pair, a male and a female; to their marriage, as such, by
divine appointment; and to the purpose of God, expressed by
the sacred historian, that in all time one man and one woman
should by marriage become one flesh--so to continue as long as
both are in the flesh. This being God's constitution,
let not man break it up by causeless divorces.
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Verse 7. They say unto him, Why did Moses
then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her
away?
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Verse 8. He saith unto them,
Moses--as a civil lawgiver.
because of--or "having respect to."
the hardness of your hearts--looking to your low
moral state, and your inability to endure the strictness of
the original law.
suffered you to
put away your wives--tolerated a relaxation of the
strictness of the marriage bond--not as approving of it, but
to prevent still greater evils.
But from the beginning it was not so--This is repeated,
in order to impress upon His audience the temporary and purely
civil character of this Mosaic relaxation.
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Verse 9. And I say unto you, Whosoever
shall put away his wife, except, &c.--See on Mt
5:32.
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Verse 10. His disciples say unto him, If
the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to
marry--that is, "In this view of marriage, surely it must
prove a snare rather than a blessing, and had better be
avoided altogether."
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Verse 11. But he said unto them, All men
cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is
given--that is, "That the unmarried state is better, is a
saying not for everyone, and indeed only for such as it is
divinely intended for." But who are these? they would
naturally ask; and this our Lord proceeds to tell them in
three particulars.
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Verse 12. For there are some eunuchs
which were so born from their mother's womb--persons
constitutionally either incapable of or indisposed to
marriage.
and there are some
eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men--persons rendered
incapable by others.
and there be
eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of
heaven's sake--persons who, to do God's work better,
deliberately choose this state. Such was Paul (1Co
7:7).
He that is able to
receive it, let him receive it--"He who feels this to be
his proper vocation, let him embrace it"; which, of course, is
as much as to say--"he only." Thus, all are left free in this
matter.
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Verse 13-15.
Matthew
19:13-15.
For the exposition, see on Lu
18:15-17.
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Verses 16-30.
Matthew
19:16-30. THE RICH
YOUNG RULER. ( = Mr
10:17-31; Lu 18:18-30).
For the exposition, see on Lu
18:18-30.
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Bibliography
Information
Jamieson, Robert, D.D.
"Commentary on Matthew 19". "Commentary Critical and
Explanatory
on the Whole Bible".
<http://www.studylight.org/com/jfb/view.cgi?book=mt&chapter=019>.
1871.
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