Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
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It is so, O Father, because thy good pleasure was such.
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Passages linked to Matthew 11:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 46:10 I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
- Ephesians 3:11 according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
- Job 33:13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
- Luke 10:21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
- Romans 9:18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
- Romans 11:33-36 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?” For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
- Ephesians 1:9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
- Ephesians 1:11 We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God’s will is the only rule of righteousness.
God’s will is the only rule of righteousness.
This word showeth, that he contenteth himself in his father’s counsel.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good…
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Ver. 26. Even so, Father, for so, &c.] Christ being tired out, as it were, by the untractableness of his hearers, turns him to his Father, and comforts himself with the consideration of his most wise decree and counsel: so must we in like case, accounting that we are a sweet savour unto God howsoever, even in them that perish, and that God shall have his end upon them, though we have not ours, 2Co 2:15.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain All things are delivered unto me of my Father,....…
All things are delivered unto me of my Father,.... This is to be understood of Christ, as mediator; for, as God, nothing was delivered to him; he had all things, all perfections, power, and glory his Father has; and is to be considered in the utmost extent: all persons are delivered to him, angels and men; good angels are delivered to him, to be confirmed in him, as their head, and to be made use of by him; spirits, evil spirits, which were subject to his disciples, are under him, and at his command and disposal; and their subjection to his disciples is owing to his power over them, which he communicated to them; all the elect of God are delivered to him, to be kept and saved by him; all the babes and little ones, to whom it was the Father's will to reveal the mysteries of grace, were his care and charge; all power in heaven, and in earth, are given unto him; and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid with him, which are distributed to any of the sons of men; all the blessings of grace, and the promises of the everlasting covenant, and all the glory and happiness of his people, are put into his hands:
and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; the transcendent glories and perfections of his nature, as the Son of God; nor the whole of his work and office, as mediator: or all that is committed to his charge, as such: all that he was to do, and suffer, for his people; all that he had done for them, and should communicate to, and bestow upon them.
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Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son; his essence and glory, his mind and will, his purposes and decrees, his counsels and covenant; the grace and love of his heart to his chosen people; what he has prepared and laid up for them, and will make them partakers of to all eternity;
and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him; both himself, and his Father, and the grace and glory of each, which he does by his Spirit; who is a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; and which entirely depends on his own sovereign will and pleasure.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. Even so, Father] ναι ο πατηρ. An…
Verse 26. Even so, Father] ναι ο πατηρ. An emphatical ratification of the preceding address.
It was right that the heavenly wisdom, despised, rejected, and persecuted by the scribes and Pharisees, should be offered to the simple people, and afterwards to the foolish people, the Gentiles, who are the children of wisdom, and justify God in his ways, by bringing forth that fruit of the Gospel of which the Pharisees refused to receive even the seed.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Yea, Father, &c. St. John Chrysostom interprets this passage…
Yea, Father, &c. St. John Chrysostom interprets this passage as if Christ would say, Go on, Father, as you have begun; or the sense may be, I give thee thanks, O Father, that it has pleased thee to act thus, that since the wise men of this world have rejected the gospel, thou hast deigned to manifest it to little ones. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Even so, Father; for so it seemed good--the emphatic…
Even so, Father; for so it seemed good--the emphatic and chosen term for expressing any object of divine complacency; whether Christ Himself (see on Mat 3:17), or God's gracious eternal arrangements (see on Phi 2:13).
in thy sight--This is just a sublime echo of the foregoing words; as if Jesus, when He uttered them, had paused to reflect on it, and as if the glory of it--not so much in the light of its own reasonableness as of God's absolute will that so it should be--had filled His soul.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. It seemed good — It was not so…
26. It seemed good — It was not so done by God from mere arbitrary unreasoning and absolute will, but because it was good. It seemed right to the Infinite Mind. It seems right to all right reason. There is no demand in this passage for those favourite phrases, “divine sovereignty,” “unfathomable and mysterious,” “good pleasure,” as if the divine administration were not founded in clear and obvious right.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. Even so, Father: for] Translate: “yea Father [I…
26. Even so, Father: for] Translate: “yea Father [I thank thee] that, &c.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) For so it seemed good.—Literally, Yea, Father, [I…
(26) For so it seemed good.—Literally, Yea, Father, [I thank Thee] that thus it was Thy good pleasure. The words recall those that had been spoken at our Lord’s baptism (“in whom I am well pleased,” Mat_3:17), and the song of the heavenly host on the night of the Nativity (“good will among men,” Luk_2:14). The two verses are remarkable as the only record outside St. John’s Gospel of a prayer like that which we find in John 17. For the most part, we may believe, those prayers were offered apart on the lonely hill-side, in the darkness of night; or, it may be, the disciples shrank in their reverence, or perhaps in the consciousness of their want of capacity, from attempting to record what was so unspeakably sacred. But it is noteworthy that in this exceptional instance we find, both in the prayer and the teaching that follows it in St. Matthew and St. Luke, turns of thought and phrase almost absolutely identical with what is most characteristic of St. John. It is as though the isolated fragment of a higher teaching had been preserved by them as a witness that there was a region upon which they scarcely dared to enter, but into which men were to be led afterwards by the beloved disciple, to whom the Spirit gave power to recall what had been above the reach of the other reporters of his Master’s teaching.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Even so; yea (Revised Version); nai . A renewed…
Even so; yea (Revised Version); nai . A renewed acceptance of the immediately preceding facts. Father. In ver. 25, Pater : here, o Pathr . There the term referred more directly to God as his own Father; here to him as Father of all, notwithstanding the methods he used. For. Giving the reason of Christ"s acceptance. That (Revised Version margin) would make this clause closely dependent on the preceding. But this seems unnatural. So; i.e. in this double method. It seemed good (it was well-pleasing, Revised Version) in thy sight (eudokia egeneto); literally, it was good pleasure before thee an Aramaism equivalent to "it was thy will". (compare the Targum of Jud_1:13:23 1Sa_12:22 wy awr; see also Mat_18:14) The phrase implies, not merely that it seemed good to God, but that, in a sense, it was his pleasure. For the workings out of the laws of truth must give pleasure to the God of truth. (On the aorist egeneto , see ver. 25, note)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Even so, Father: for so it seemeth good in…
Mat_11:26
Even so, Father: for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.
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Submission to ,our Fathers will
In order to cherish such feelings in the heart-
1. Take fatherly views of the character of God-Even so, Father.
2. Remember that nothing could have happened to you, unless it had been first good to you in Gods sight that it should be-It seemeth good in Thy sight.
3. The unfoldings of eternity will solve the problems of this world, and justify God in His moral government. (J. Vaughan, M. A.)
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 26. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good,…
26. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good, etc. “Even so” is better rendered “Yea.”
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