the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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马太ç¦é³ 8:21
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又 有 一 个 门 徒 对 耶 稣 说 ： 主 阿 ， 容 我 先 回 去 埋 葬 我 的 父 亲 。
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Bible Verse Review
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another: Luke 9:59-62
suffer: Matthew 19:29, Leviticus 21:11, Leviticus 21:12, Numbers 6:6, Numbers 6:7, Deuteronomy 33:9, Deuteronomy 33:10, 1 Kings 19:20, 1 Kings 19:21, Haggai 1:2, 2 Corinthians 5:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 50:5 - let me go Leviticus 10:7 - ye shall Ezekiel 44:25 - General Mark 1:20 - they left
Cross-References
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."
The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.
But God remembered Noah and all the wild and tame animals with him in the boat. He made a wind blow over the earth, and the water went down.
The underground springs stopped flowing, and the clouds in the sky stopped pouring down rain.
The water that covered the earth began to go down. After one hundred fifty days it had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.
Forty days later Noah opened the window he had made in the boat, and
he sent out a raven. It flew here and there until the water had dried up from the earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And another of his disciples said unto him,.... That is, one of his disciples; for this does not suppose, that the other, the Scribe before mentioned, was one. It is possible, he might be one of the twelve. The Persic version makes him one of the disciples, whom they call "Hawarion", apostles; and, according to ancient tradition, it was d Philip. And certain it is, that he was one, who was called to preach the Gospel; so that he was not a common ordinary disciple; nor could he be one of the seventy disciples, since it was after this, that they were called and sent forth; as appears from Luke's account, Luke 9:60. But who he particularly was, cannot be certainly known, nor is it of any great importance to know it: his address to Christ is made with great respect and reverence, and in a very modest and humble manner,
Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father: for it seems, according to Luke, that Christ had bid him "follow" him: he had given him a call to be his disciple, and to go and preach the Gospel, which he did not refuse; but desires leave "first" to attend his father's funeral, who was now dead; as his requests, and Christ's answer, both suppose: though some conjecture, that he was only very aged, or was dangerously ill; and therefore it could not be thought he would live long: hence he was desirous of doing this last good office, before he entered on his public work; but these are conjectures, without any foundation: it is plain, his father was dead, and what he requested was, to go home, which perhaps might not be a great way off, and perform the funeral rites, and then return. This may seem very reasonable, since burying the dead was reckoned by the Jews, not only an act of kindness and respect to the deceased, but an act of piety and religion; and in which, men are followers of God, and imitate him, who himself buried the body of Moses e. And though this man was called to preach the Gospel, yet he might think he would be easily excused for the present, on this account; since, according to the Jewish canons, such whose dead lay before them, who were as yet unburied, were excused reading the Shema, they were free from performing the duty of prayer, and were not obliged to wear their phylacteries f.
d Clement. Alex. Strom. l. 3. p. 436. e T. Bab. Bava Metzia, fol. 30. 2. & Sota, fol. 14. 1. f Misn. Beracot, c. 3. sect. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And another of his disciples ... - The word “disciple” properly signifies “learner,” and was given to the followers of Jesus because they received him as their teacher. See the notes at Matthew 5:1. It does not of necessity mean that a “disciple” was a pious man, but only one of the multitude, who, for various causes, might attend on his instructions. See John 6:66; John 9:28.
Suffer me first to go and bury my father - This seemed to be a reasonable request, as respect for parents, living or dead, is one of the first duties of religion. But the Saviour saw that in his circumstances there might be danger, if he was thus permitted to go, that he would not return to him: and he commanded him, therefore, to perform the more important duty - the duty of attending to the salvation of his soul even at the risk of the apparent neglect of another duty. The first duty of man is religion, and everything else should be made subordinate to that.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 8:21. Another of his disciples — This does not mean any of the twelve, but one of those who were constant hearers of our Lord's preaching; the name of disciple being common to all those who professed to believe in him, John 6:66. Bury my father: probably his father was old, and apparently near death; but it was a maxim among the Jews, that, if a man had any duty to perform to the dead, he was, for that time, free from the observance of any other precept or duty. The children of Adam are always in extremes; some will rush into the ministry of the Gospel without a call, others will delay long after they are called; the middle way is the only safe one: not to move a finger in the work till the call be given, and not to delay a moment after.
