Matthew 12:1-8

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Nov 22, 2010 05:13 AM Done

<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-1.htm" >1</a>At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

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<li>Through the corn - Through the "barley," or "wheat." The word "corn," as used in our translation of the Bible, has no reference to "maize," or "Indian corn," as it has with us. Indian corn was unknown until the discovery of America, and it is scarcely probable that the translators knew anything about it. The word "corn" was applied, as it is still in England, to wheat, rye, oats, and barley. This explains the circumstance that they "rubbed it in their hands" <a href="http://bible.cc/luke/6-1.htm" >Luke 6:1</a> to separate the grain from the chaff.</li>

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<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-2.htm" >2</a>But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-3.htm" >3</a>But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

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<a href="http://clarke.biblecommenter.com/matthew/12.htm" >Clarke's Commentary on the Bible</a>

Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do - The Jews were so superstitious, concerning the observance of the Sabbath, that in their wars with Antiochus Epiphanes, and the Romans, they thought it a crime even to attempt to defend themselves on the Sabbath: when their enemies observed this, they deterred their operations to that day. It was through this, that Pompey was enabled to take Jerusalem. Dion. Cass. lib. xxxvi.

Those who know not the spirit and design of the divine law are often superstitious to inhumanity, and indulgent to impiety. An intolerant and censorious spirit in religion is one of the greatest curses a man can well fall under.

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<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-4.htm" >4</a>How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-5.htm" >5</a>Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-6.htm" >6</a>But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-7.htm" >7</a>But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/12-8.htm" >8</a>For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

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<a href="http://clarke.biblecommenter.com/matthew/12.htm" >Clarke's Commentary on the Bible</a>

In this place is one greater than the temple - Does not our Lord refer here to <a href="http://bible.cc/malachi/3-1.htm" >Malachi 3:1</a>? Compare this with <a href="http://bible.cc/hebrews/3-3.htm" >Hebrews 3:3</a>. The Jews esteemed nothing greater than the temple, except that God who was worshipped in it. Christ, by asserting he was greater than the temple, asserts that he was God; and this he does, in still more direct terms, <a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/matthew/12-8.htm" >Matthew 12:8</a>, The Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath - is Institutor and Governor of it. Compare this with <a href="http://bible.cc/genesis/2-3.htm" >Genesis 2:3</a> (note), and see the notes there.

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