{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/mat015.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/mat015.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/mat015.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nMatthew 15:1\n \nmat 15:1\nMar 7:1. \nMatthew 15:2\n \nmat 15:2\nThe elders - The chief doctors or, teachers among the Jews. \nMatthew 15:3\n \nmat 15:3\nThey wash not their hands when they eat bread - Food in general is termed bread in Hebrew; so that to eat bread is the same as to make a meal. \nMatthew 15:4\n \nmat 15:4\nHonour thy father and mother - Which implies all such relief as they stand in need of. Exo 20:12; Exo 21:17. \nMatthew 15:5\n \nmat 15:5\nIt is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by me - That is, I have given, or at least, purpose to give to the treasury of the temple, what you might otherwise have had from me. \nMatthew 15:7\n \nmat 15:7\nWell did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying - That is, the description which Isaiah gave of your fathers, is exactly applicable to you. The words therefore which were a description of them, are a prophecy with regard to you. \nMatthew 15:8\n \nmat 15:8\nTheir heart is far from me - And without this all outward worship is mere mockery of God. Isa 29:13. \nMatthew 15:9\n \nmat 15:9\nTeaching the commandments of men - As equal with, nay, superior to, those of God. What can be a more heinous sin? \nMatthew 15:13\n \nmat 15:13\nEvery plant - That is, every doctrine. \nMatthew 15:14\n \nmat 15:14\nLet them alone - If they are indeed blind leaders of the blind; let them alone: concern not yourselves about them: a plain direction how to behave with regard to all such. Luk 6:39. \nMatthew 15:17\n \nmat 15:17\nAre ye also yet without understanding - How fair and candid are the sacred historians? Never concealing or excusing their own blemishes. \nMatthew 15:19\n \nmat 15:19\nFirst evil thoughts - then murders - and the rest. Railings - The Greek word includes all reviling, backbiting, and evil speaking. \nMatthew 15:21\n \nmat 15:21\nMar 7:24. \nMatthew 15:22\n \nmat 15:22\nA woman of Canaan - Canaan was also called Syrophenicia, as lying between Syria properly so called, and Phenicia, by the sea side. Cried to him - From afar, Thou Son of David - So she had some knowledge of the promised Messiah. \nMatthew 15:23\n \nmat 15:23\nHe answered her not a word - He sometimes tries our faith in like manner. \nMatthew 15:24\n \nmat 15:24\nI am not sent - Not primarily; not yet. \nMatthew 15:25\n \nmat 15:25\nThen came she - Into the house where he now was. \nMatthew 15:28\n \nmat 15:28\nThy faith - Thy reliance on the power and goodness of God. \nMatthew 15:29\n \nmat 15:29\nThe sea of Galilee - The Jews gave the name of seas to all large lakes. This was a hundred furlongs long, and forty broad. It was called also, the sea of Tiberias. It lay on the borders of Galilee, and the city of Tiberias stood on its western shore. It was likewise styled the lake of Gennesareth: perhaps a corruption of Cinnereth, the name by which it was anciently called, Num 34:11. Mar 7:31. \nMatthew 15:32\n \nmat 15:32\nThey continue with me now three days - It was now the third day since they came. Mar 8:1. \nMatthew 15:36\n \nmat 15:36\nHe gave thanks, or blessed the food - That is, he praised God for it, and prayed for a blessing upon it.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Matthew: Matthew Chapter 15","type":"page"}