To the multitudes also (κα τοις οχλοις). After the strong and stirring words just before with flash and force Jesus turns finally …

When you see a cloud rise out of the west.—See Notes on Matthew 16:2. The differences in form are, however, noticeable en…

Theophylact of Ohrid: When He spoke about preaching and called it a sword, His hearers may have been troubled, not knowing …

Jesus now turns from his disciples (v.22) to the crowd with a message on the element of crisis. The words “interpret this present time” imply a cri…

And he said also to the people
For what Christ had before said, were chiefly, if not solely, directed to his discipl…

Christ would have people be as wise in the concerns of their souls as they are in outward affairs. Let them hasten to obtain peace with God before …