Matthew 8

It was said of Nabal (1 Samuel 25:18), he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him. Some are so barbarous, as if they were akin to the ostrich, they are fired with rage, and breathe forth nothing but revenge, like those two men in the Gospel possessed with devils,…

Christ loves to see the vine flourishing, and the pomegranates budding (Song of Solomon 6:11). Christ accepts the truth of grace, but commends the growth of grace (Matthew 8:10): I have not found so great faith, no not in Israel. Would you be as the beloved disciple that lay in…

Adoption is twofold, 1. External and Federal: So those who live in a visible church, and make a profession of God, are sons (Matthew 8:12). The children of the kingdom shall be cast out.

Resp. I shall show, 1. What it is not; it is not a bare acknowledgment that Christ is a Savior; indeed there must be an acknowledgment, but that is not sufficient to justify. The devils acknowledged Christ's Godhead (Matthew 8:29): Jesus, you Son of God. There may be an assent t…

He has got your hearts, and him you will obey: His strong temptations do more draw men to evil, than all the promises of God can draw them to good. This is the state of every man by nature, he is in the house of bondage, the Devil has him in his power: A sinner grinds in the Dev…

Cain served God grudgingly, he brought his sacrifice, not his heart. To obey God's Commandments unwillingly, is like the devils who came out of the men possessed at Christ's command, but with reluctancy and against their will (Matthew 8:29). Obedientia praeest, and à est non tim…

When Solomon was to build a temple he needed many workmen, and they all had tools to work with, but God worked without tools (Psalm 33:6). By the word of the Lord were the heavens made. The disciples wondered that Christ could with a word calm the sea (Matthew 8:26-27). But it w…

You may have hot clothes, warm and lively preaching, yet be spiritually dead. Matthew 8:12: The children of the kingdom shall be cast out. Deceit 2: Men think they have the kingdom of grace set up in their hearts, because they have some common works of the Spirit.

Psalm 33:6: "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made." The disciples wondered that Christ could with a word calm the sea (Matthew 8:26), but it was far more with a word to make the sea. Let us on a Sabbath meditate on the infiniteness of our Creator, look up to the firmame…

Therefore Naaman's servants called their master father (2 Kings 5:13). And the centurion calls his servant son (Matthew 8:6). The servant is to honor his master as the father of the family.

They have got their sickness in your service; use what means you can for their recovery. Be not like the Amalekite, who forsook his servant when he was sick (1 Samuel 30:13), but be as the good Centurion, who kept his sick servant, and sought to Christ for a cure (Matthew 8:6).…

Say not thus, Lord, my heart is good, and my life blameless, God hates this. Lie in the dust, be covered with sackcloth; say as the centurion (Matthew 8:8), Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: I deserve not the least smile from heaven. This is the way for p…

For, how can we look to be glorified with them after this life, if here we be not like them in grace? Christ tells his followers, that many should come from the East and from the West, to sit with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven, Matthew 8:11, 12, (because th…

The bag which Judas carried, doth prove the contrary; for, he was (as it were) the steward in Christ's family, who looked to their provision, and to their contribution to the poor: as may be seen, John 13.27, 28, 29. Yea Christ's Disciples, though they left the present use of th…

As for example, we know that the apostles had all true saving faith (except Judas) and when our Savior Christ asked them, whom they thought that he was; Peter in the person of the rest, answered for them all, and said; you are Christ, the Son of the living God: for which our Sav…

One of these emboldened the leper to pray, Lord, if you will you can make me clean. Matthew 8:2. Therefore both together are more effectual.

We for our parts deny it, as having no warrant in the word of God, which mentions only two places for men after this life — heaven and hell — with the twofold condition thereof: joy and torment. Luke 16:25-26; John 3:36; Revelation 22:14-15; Revelation 21:7-8; Matthew 8:11. Nay,…

For first of all, in regard of ourselves and our disposition we cannot be certain at all, but must despair of salvation even to the very death. We cannot be sufficiently disposed so long as we live in this world, but must always say with Jacob, I am less than all your mercies (G…

First, the thing that Christ bore is called griefs and sorrows, by which we understand the effects that sin brings on men in the world, for it is the same that in verse 5 is called his being wounded for our transgression, and bruised for our iniquity; it is a wounding that iniqu…

These words, and all this Chapter, look liker a piece of the history of the Gospel than a prophecy of the Old Testament; the sufferings of the Messiah being so directly pointed at in them. We show that this first part of the fourth verse holds forth the cause of his sufferings,…

Why, then the Lord's disciples had no faith, when Christ said to them, Why doubt you, O you of little faith? It may perhaps be answered, that the disciples (Matthew 8) doubted not of their son-ship, but of the Lord's particular care in bringing them to shore, in a great sea-stor…

If any man say Christ bought these, in regard that by his death, he purchases a dominion over elect and reprobate, that all knees should bow to him, men and Angels (Romans 14:8-9, etc.; Isaiah 45:[reconstructed: 23]; Philippians 2:9-11; John 5:27; Acts 17:31), so that there is a…

The word here translated Tempted, is read by some [[illegible]] that is, vexed. Yea, and Thirdly, to helpe this also, it may be said of Christ while he was here below, that in the same sense or manner wherein he bore our sicknesses, Matthew 8:17 (who yet was never personally tai…

It is a notable place that in Jeremiah 2:25: God calls upon his people most affectionately that they would be healed, but they snuff up their iniquities as the wind, and like wild ass colts, would be at liberty, and take pleasure in their running at random; and God said, Withhol…

So (Luke 22:31). Simon, Simon, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. Nay he could not enter into the herd of swine without a patent, and new pass from Christ (Matthew 8:31). So the devils besought him, saying. If you cast us out suffer us to go away into…

This word is spoken of (Psalm 107:20): "He sent his word, and his word healed them, and delivered them from all their destructions." It is dictum factum with God, if he speak but the word it is all done (Matthew 8:8): "Speak but the word and your servant shall be whole." So (Luk…

5. We shall have the company of the blessed saints in heaven. The disciples here did not only enjoy the company and sight of Christ, but the company and sight of Moses and Elijah, being glorified saints; so in the heavenly life (Matthew 8:11). It is made a part of our blessednes…

3. The nature of a state of glory, and how easily it makes us to forget all things here below. Peter had a family, and household affairs to mind, for we read in the Gospel that his wife's mother was sick and cured by Christ (Matthew 8:14). He had friends and a brother called And…

And he looked, and behold there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head, and he did eat and drink, and laid him down again." [illegible], the word here used, is often taken in that sense in the New Testament (Matthew 8:15): "She arose and ministered to th…

Christ's touch is powerful, and a means of application. Usually thus Christ conveyed and applied his power (Matthew 8:3) — he touched the leper and cleansed him. Matthew 8:15 — he touched Peter's wife's mother, and cured her of a fever.

The first, that they which are, or desire to be dispensers of the word, must do it not for the belly, or for lucre's sake, or for the praise of men, but simply for this end, that they may gain souls to God. The scribe that would have followed Christ for gain, was repelled with t…

Lastly, in that the faithful are called a family, it shows that they are but few, even a handful in comparison of the world; for what is a family to a country or a kingdom? Indeed I grant, if those of the family of faith, be considered by themselves, they are many (Matthew 8:11)…

Surely because he bore our sorrows. Saint Matthew alleges this prophecy, after he has told how Christ healed diseases of diverse kinds (Matthew 8:17). And yet it is most certain, that he was appointed rather a physician of men's souls, than of their bodies.

“Qui n'avons point une telle prerogative;” — “who have not such a prerogative.” Again, the word sheep is applied even to the reprobate, who, properly speaking, did not belong to the flock of God, because the adoption extended to the whole nation; as those who deserved to be reje…

Mark designates Christ the Son of God. The other Evangelists testify that he was born of the seed of Abraham and David, and therefore was the Son of man, (Matthew 8:20). But Mark shows us, that no redemption is to be expected but from the Son of God.

The consequence is, that they leave no room for the providence of God. This is a reproof of excessive curiosity; for it leads us to bring upon ourselves uneasiness to no purpose, and voluntarily to make ourselves miserable before the time, (Matthew 8:29.) The expression used by…

Matthew 8:1-4 1. And when he had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

Matthew 8:14-18 14. And when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying in bed, and afflicted with fever.

MATTHEW 8:19-22; LUKE 9:57-62 Matthew 8:19-22

Matthew 8:23-27 23. And when he had entered into the ship,

Matthew 8:28-34 28. And when he had come to the opposite bank,

Matthew 8:5-13 5. And when Jesus had entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, beseeching him,

We have here a bright mirror in which the divine condescension towards us is beheld. If you compare the ruler of the synagogue with the centurion, who was a heathen, (Matthew 8:5-10,) you will say that the full brightness of faith shone in the centurion, while scarcely the small…

21. For they shall not say, Lo, he is here! or, Lo, he is there! for, lo, the kingdom of God is within you. As, on a former occasion, Matthew and the other two Evangelists (Matthew 8:1; Mark 1:40; Luke 5:12) related that a leper had been cleansed by Christ, so Luke mentions that…

There is probability in the conjecture that, as Christ frequently, when he wished to try the faith of men, delayed for a short time to relieve them, so he subjected this blind man to the same scrutiny. The second difficulty may be speedily removed; for we have seen, on a former…

30. And cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness. We have also explained, Harmony, vol. 1. p. 384. under Matthew 8:12, that outer darkness is contrasted with the light which is within the house; “De la lumiere et clarte qui est en la maison;” — “with the light and brigh…

As if he should say: The very saints and holy ones are wonderfully afraid to see so severe a judgment, namely in that, God spared not his excellent spirits, and most noble creatures, which were far more perfect and wiser than we, but binding them in chains of darkness, cast them…

Satan is now as full of discontent as he can be, but he is not so full of torment as he can be. This we see expressly in Matthew 8:29, where the devils say to Christ, "Are you come to torment us before our time?" as noting that there will be a time wherein they shall have more t…

The wicked who care not for God, yet at death they would draw near to him. Then they cry as in Matthew 8:25: Lord save us, or we perish; then mercy, mercy! They run to God in distress, as in a storm men run to a tree for shelter.

Moses was forbidden to enter into Canaan, because he seemed by his speech to assume the honor of working only one miracle to himself. Nor did Christ work miracles as the apostles did, who wrought them all in the name of Christ; but he wrought them in his own name, and by his own…