The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
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The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
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And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile.
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And the people said, This is Iesus that Prophet of Nazareth in Galile.
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Passages linked to Matthew 21:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- John 6:14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
- Luke 7:16 Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”
- John 7:40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
- Deuteronomy 18:15-19 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.” Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
- Matthew 2:23 and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.
- John 9:17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
- Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
- Matthew 16:13-14 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”
- John 1:21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
- Acts 3:22-23 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
- John 4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
- Mark 6:15 But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”
- John 1:45-46 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
- Luke 24:19 He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
- Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
- Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’
- John 1:25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the…
11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Ver. 11. The prophet of Nazareth, &c.] The arch-prophet they acknowledge him; but of Nazareth of Galilee. They had not profited so much, or made so far progress in the mystery of Christ, as to know him to have been born a Bethlehemite. And to nourish this error in the people it was, that the devil, that old impostor, Mar 1:24, though he confessed Christ to be the "holy one of God," yet he calleth him "Jesus of Nazareth." Satan etsi semel videatur verax, millies est mendax et semper fallax, Satan never speaks truth, but with a mind to deceive.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the multitude said,.... Or the people, as the…
And the multitude said,.... Or the people, as the Vulgate Latin, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel read; the common people, that went before, and followed after him: these knew Christ better than the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Scribes and Pharisees, and rulers of the people.
This is Jesus the prophet: that prophet Moses spoke of, in Deu 18:15 and the nation of the Jews in general expected:
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of Nazareth of Galilee; who, though he was not born there, yet being educated, and having lived much in that place, is said to be of it; and which was the common opinion of the people.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain This is Jesus from Nazareth - What a stumbling…
This is Jesus from Nazareth - What a stumbling block was this! if he was of Nazareth, he could not be the Messiah. But they who earnestly desired to know the truth would not stumble thereat: for upon inquiry (which such would not fail to make) they would find, he was not of Nazareth, but Bethlehem.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. This is Jesus THE PROPHET] ο προφητης…
Verse 11. This is Jesus THE PROPHET] ο προφητης THAT prophet whom Moses spoke of, De 18:18. I will raise them up a prophet - like unto thee, &c. Every expression of the multitude plainly intimated that they fully received our blessed Lord as the promised Messiah. - How strange is it that these same people (if the creatures of the high priest be not only intended) should, about five days after, change their hosannas for, Away with him! crucify him! crucify him! How fickle is the multitude! Even when they get right, there is but little hope that they will continue so long.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The Prophet, &c. It was amidst these acclamations that…
The Prophet, &c. It was amidst these acclamations that Christ wept, and foretold the destruction of the city. (Luke xix. 42.) (Witham) --- It was not without great reason, that the whole city was so much disturbed with the triumphal entry of Jesus. Man was extolled as God, and God extolled in man. The elders, admiring his heavenly virtue, exclaimed, who is the king of glory! (Origen) --- This is Jesus, the prophet, (Greek: outos estin Iesous o prophetes,) the one promised by Moses, (Deuteronomy xvii. 15.) was the answer of the simple and candid people. (Jansenius)
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).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee — They do…
11. Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee — They do not style him Messiah, or king, or conqueror. He is simply a prophet.
Our Lord’s deeds of public authority are not terminated with his symbolical royal entry. He must perform a symbolical act of supreme priesthood. For he is both king and priest; Lord of the kingdom of God and the priest of the new ritual. And as in the former transaction he had fulfilled the memorable prophecy of Zechariah, so now he fulfils the promise in Mal_3:1-3. He should come, as Lord, suddenly, into his temple, and purify the sons of Levi. And the same remark may be made as in regard to the triumphal entry. Our Lord performed the act which is pictured in the image of the prophet.
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A somewhat similar cleansing was performed by our Lord at the opening of his ministry, as now at its close. Joh_2:13-18. Doubtless Alford states the true reason why the first three Gospels omit any mention of that first cleansing, namely, that those three are nearly exclusively Galilean Gospels, until this entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The multitude; oi ocloi : the multitudes. These were…
The multitude; oi ocloi : the multitudes. These were the people who took part in the procession; they kept repeating (elegon , imperfect) to all inquiries, This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth . They give his name, title, and dwelling place. They call him "the Prophet," either as being the One that was foretold, (Joh_1:21 Joh_6:14) or as being inspired and commissioned by God. (Joh_9:17) The appellation, "of Nazareth," clung to our Lord through all his earthly life. St. Matthew (Mat_2:23) notes that the prophets had foretold that he was to be called a Nazarene, and that this prediction was in some sort fulfilled by his dwelling at Nazareth. We know not who were the prophets to whom the evangelist refers, and in this obscurity the attempted explanations of exegetes are far from satisfactory; so it is safer to fall back upon the inspired historian"s verdict, and to mark the providential accomplishment of the prediction in the title by which Jesus was generally known. Says Isaac Williams, "Friends and foes, chief priests in hate, Pilate in mockery, angels in adoration, disciples in love, Christ himself in lowliness, (Act_22:8) and now the multitudes in simplicity, all proclaim him "of Nazareth.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 11. Jesus the prophet of Nazareth. The inquiry arose…
11. Jesus the prophet of Nazareth. The inquiry arose everywhere, “Who is this?” to which the Galileans who composed so large a part of the procession, responded: “It is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, of Galilee.” Of this they were sure; of his real character none but his own disciples knew, and they imperfectly. The Galileans regarded him the prophet named by Moses in Deut. 18:18.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:11 The crowds with Jesus understood him to be…
21:11 The crowds with Jesus understood him to be a prophet, empowered by God to teach and to perform miracles. • The description from Nazareth in Galilee highlights Jesus’ humble origins (see 2:23).
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