When he had taken him in his arms.—The act is expressed in the Greek by a single participle which occurs only here and in…

Perhaps they were jealous of Peter; possibly they were even more jealous of James and John. So the Lord gently pacifies them. He does not impatient…

Theophylact of Ohrid: It is after miracles that the Lord inserts a discourse concerning His Passion, lest it be thought tha…

To illustrate the principle in v.35, Jesus took a child, perhaps one from the family in whose house he was teaching, and first stood him by his sid…

And he took a child
Which was in the house, and which he called to him, and set by him, as the other evangelists obs…

The time of Christ's suffering drew near. If he had been delivered into the hands of devils, and they had done this, it would not have been so stra…