He sent yet another (proseqeto eteron pempsai). Literally, he added to send another. A clear Hebraism repeated in verse Matthew 12 and also in Mat...
They murmured (egogguzon). Onomatopoetic word, the meaning suiting the sound. Our words murmur and grumble are similar. Probably here inchoative impe...
Sit down (anakliqhsontai). Recline at table on couches as Jews and Romans did. Hence Leonardo da Vinci's famous picture of the Last Supper is an anac...
Pharisees, the A sect of the Jews Acts 15:5 The strictest observers of the Mosaic ritual Acts 26:5 By descent, especially esteemed Acts 23...
Overview - Matthew 11 1?John sends his disciples to Christ. 7?Christ's testimony concerning John. 16?The perverse judgment of the people. 20?Christ u...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed....
Overview - Matthew 6 1?Christ continues his sermon on the mount, exhorting not to be careful for worldly things, 33?but to seek God's kingdom. Treasur...
Luke 7:28 For I say unto you----here is not a greater prophet The word prophet is left out in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions, as in ( Matthew 11:11 ...
Overview - Matthew 28 1?Christ's resurrection is declared by an angel to the women. 9?He himself appears unto them. 11?The chief priests give the sol...
Overview - Matthew 11 1?John sends his disciples to Christ. 7?Christ's testimony concerning John. 16?The perverse judgment of the people. 20?Christ u...
More tolerable (anektoteron). Comparative of the verbal adjective anekto from anecomai. An old adjective, but only the comparative in the N.T. and in...
Afterward (usteron). And find the door shut in their faces. Lord, Lord, open to us (Kurie, Kurie, anoixon hmin). They appeal to the bridegroom who is...
Judea, modern One of the divisions of the Holy Land under the Romans Luke 3:1 Comprised the whole of the ancient kingdom of Judah 1?Kings 12:2...
Overview - Numbers 12 1?God rebukes the sedition of Miriam and Aaron. 11?Miriam's leprosy is healed at the prayer of Moses. 14?God commands her to be ...
Overview - Matthew 4 1?Christ, fasting forty days, is tempted of the devil and ministered unto by angels. 12?He dwells in Capernaum; 17?begins to prea...
Overview - Matthew 25 1?The parable of the ten virgins, 14?and of the talents. 31?Also the description of the last judgment. Treasury of Scripture Kno...
Overview - Matthew 9 1?Christ cures one sick of the palsy; 9?calls Matthew from the receipt of custom; 10?eats with publicans and sinners; 14?defends...
Overview - Luke 11 1?Christ teaches us to pray, and that instantly; 11?assuring us that God will give all good things to them that ask him. 14?He, cas...
Overview - Matthew 23 1?Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the evil examples, of the Scribes and Pharisees. 5?His disciple...
Overview - Luke 11 1?Christ teaches us to pray, and that instantly; 11?assuring us that God will give all good things to them that ask him. 14?He, cas...