*: Mark 9:34 Luke 9:46
1: Humbleness of mind is the right way to pre-eminence.
a: A child in years
*: Chapter 19:14 1 Corinthians
14:20
b: A kind of speech taken from the Hebrews, and it is as much as,
repent.
*: Mark 9:42 Luke 17:2
2: We ought to have great respect to our brethren be they never so
base: and he that doeth otherwise shall be sharply punished. 3: A
good man cannot but go through the midst of offences, yet he must cut
off all occasion of offences.
c: Lets and hindrances which stop the course of good works. The Greek
word importeth thus much, things which we stumble at.
*: Chapter 5:20,30 Mark 9:45
d: Look afore, Chapter 5:29
4: The weaker that a man is, the greater care we ought to have for
his salvation, as God teacheth us by his own example.
*: Psalms 34:8
*: Luke 19:10
*: Luke 15:4
*: Leviticus 19:7 Luke
17:3 James 5:19
5: We must labour for concord, not to revenge injuries.
e: If his offence be such, that thou only knowest thy brothers
offence.
*: Deuteronomy 19:15 John 8:17 2 Corinthians 13:1 Hebrews 10:28
f: That is, by the word and witness, the mouth is sometimes taken for
the word of speech, Numbers 3:16 and also for a still witness, to
wit, when the matter speaketh of itself, as beneath, Chapter 21:16
g: Sure and certain.
6: He that condemneth the judgement of the church, condemneth God.
h: Word for word, do not vouchsafe to hear, or make as though he did
not hear.
i: He speaketh not of any kind of policy, but of an ecclesiastical
assembly, for he speaketh afterwards of the power of loosing and
binding, which belonged to the Church, and he hath regard to the
order used in those days, at what time the Elders had the judgement
of Church matters at their hands, John 9:22 and 12:42 and 16:2 and
used casting out of the Synagogue for a punishment, as we do now
excommunication.
k: Profane, and void of religion: such men, the Jews called Gentiles:
whose company they shunned, as they did the Publicans.
*: 1 Corinthians 5:4
2 Thessalonians 3:14
*: John 20:23
l: This word is translated from the body to the mind, for it
belongeth properly to song.
7: they shall find God severe, and not to be pleased, which do not
forgive their brethren although they have diversely and grievously
injured by them.
*: Luke 17:4
m: Here is set down a very great sum of threescore hundred thousand
crowns, that the difference may be the greater, for their is no
proportion between them.
n: This was a civil reverence which was very usual in the East.
o: Yield not too much to thine anger against me: so is God called in
Scripture, slow to anger, that is to say, gentle, and one that
restraineth the storming of his mind, Psalms 86:5 Patient and of
great mercy.
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Chapter 18
1. The greatest in the kingdom of God. 5. To receive a little
child. 6. To give offence. 7. Offences. 9. The pulling out of the
eye. 10. The Angels. 12. The lost sheep. 15. The telling of one his
fault. 17. Excommunication. 21. We must always pardon the brother
that repenteth. 23. The parable of the King that taketh an account of
his servants.
The * same time the disciples came unto Jesus,
saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 1 And
Jesus called a a little child unto him, and
set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Verily I
say unto you, Except ye be *b converted, and become as little children, ye shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever
therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And
whosoever shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth
me.
6 But
*2 whosoever shall offend
one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him,
that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned
in the depth of the sea.
7 3
Woe be unto the world because of offences:
for it must needs be that c offences shall come, but woe be to that man by whom the
offence cometh.
8 *
Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foot cause thee to
d offend, cut them off,
and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into
life, halt, and maimed, then having two hands, or two feet, to be
cast into everlasting fire.
9 And if
thine eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from thee:
it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, than having
two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
10
4 See that ye despise not
one of these little ones: for I say unto you, that in heaven their
* angels always behold the face of my Father
which is in heaven.
11 For
* the son of man is come to save that which
was lost.
12 How
think ye? * If a man have a hundred sheep.
and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave ninety and nine,
and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?
13 And if
so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of
that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray:
14 So is it
not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these
little ones should perish.
15 ¶
*5 Moreover, if thy
brother trespass against e thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him
alone: if he hear thee, thou hast won thy brother.
16 But if
he hear thee not, take yet with thee one or two, that by the
*f mouth of two or three
witnesses every word may be g confirmed.
17
5 And if he
h refuse to hear them,
tell it unto the i
Church: and if he refuse to hear the Church also, let him be unto
thee as k a
heathen man, and a publican.
18 Verily I
say unto you, * Whatsoever ye bind on
earth, shall be bound in heaven: and *
whatsoever ye loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven.
19 Again,
verily I say unto you, that if two of you shall
l agree in earth upon
anything, whatsoever they shall desire, it shall be given them of my
Father which is in heaven.
20 For
where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I in
the midst of them.
21 7 Then
came Peter to him, and said, Master, How often shall my brother sin
against me, and I shall forgive him? * unto seven times?
22 Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee, Unto seven times, but, Unto seventy
times seven times.
23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain
king, which would take an account of his servants.
24 And when
he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him
m ten thousand
talents.
25 And
because he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and
his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and the
debt to be paid.
26 The
servant therefore fell down, and n
worshipped him, saying, Lord, o refrain
thine anger toward me, and I will pay thee all.
27 Then that servant's lord had
compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
28 But when the servant was departed,
he found one of his fellow servants, which owed him a hundred pence,
and he laid hands on him and throttled him, saying, pay me that thou
owest.
29 Then his fellow servant fell down
at his feet, and besought him, saying, Refrain thine anger toward me,
and I will pay thee all.
30 Yet he would not, but went, and
cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
31 And when his other fellow
servants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came, and
declared unto their lord all that was done.
32 Then his lord called him unto him,
and said to him, O evil servant, I forgave thee all that debt,
because thou prayedst me.
33 Oughtest not thou also to have
pity on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity on thee?
34 So his lord was wroth, and he
delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due
unto him.
35 So likewise shall my heavenly
Father do unto you, except ye forgive from your hearts, each one to
his brother their trespasses
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