Saw a great light (φως ειδεν μεγα). Matthew quotes Isa 9:1f. , and applies the words about the deliverer from Assyria to the Messi…

The people who sat in darkne . This is an expre ion denoting great ignorance. As in darkne or night we can see nothing and do not know whe…

This citation is remarkable, as it is the only reference in the New Testament to what seems to us the most wonderful and majestic of all Messianic …

Note how the movements of our King are all ordered according to divine prophecy. Leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum to fulfi…

Rabanus Maurus: After relating the forty days' fast, the temptation of Christ, and the ministry of Angels, Matthew continues, …

Jesus’ move fulfilled Isa 9:1–2, a prophecy that is part of a large structure looking to Immanuel’s coming . The point of the quotation is clear en…

The people which sat in darkness
The inhabitants of Galilee, who sat or "walked", as in Isaiah; that is, continued i…

It is just for God to take the gospel and the means of grace from those who disregard them and thrust them away. Christ will not stay long where he…

The Evangelist showed how Christ was tried and approved, specifically by conquering the devil; here he shows how Christ began to teach. In this reg…