Matthew 10:40 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 10:40

He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

KJV

He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

The Lord when He sends forth His disciples to preach, teaches them that dangers are not to be feared, that natural affection is to be postponed to religion—gold He had above taken from them, brass He had shaken out of their purses—hard then surely the condition of the preachers! Whence their living? Whence their food and necessaries? Therefore He tempers the rigour of His precepts by the following promises, that in entertaining the Apostles each believer may consider that he entertains the Lord.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He that receiveth you - Treats you kindly, receiveth me; I will consider the kindness as shown to myself; for he who receiveth me, as the true Messiah, receiveth that God by whose counsels and through whose love I am come.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

In these verses the great head of the church winds up his first charge to those whom he sends forth to make known his Gospel. He declares three great truths, which form a fitting conclusion to the whole discourse. In the first place, he bids us remember that his Gospel will not cause peace and agreement wherever it comes.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He that receiveth you--entertaineth you, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me--As the treatment which an ambassador receives is understood and regarded as expressing the light in which he that sends him is viewed, so, says our Lord here, "Your authority is Mine, as Mine is My Father's."

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁ	Ho	The [One]	G3588 →
δεχόμενος	dechomenos	receiving	G1209 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
ἐμὲ	eme	Me myself	G1473 →
δέχεται,	dechetai	receives,	G1209 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	the [one]	G3588 →
ἐμὲ	eme	Me myself	G1473 →
δεχόμενος	dechomenos	receiving	G1209 →
δέχεται	dechetai	he receives	G1209 →
τὸν	ton	the [One]	G3588 →
ἀποστείλαντά	aposteilanta	having sent	G649 →
με.	me	Me.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
leads to
- John 13:20
  Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:8
  Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
Through
John 13:20
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”
leads to
- Luke 10:16
  Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Mark 9:37
  “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes not only Me, but the One who sent Me.”
  Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 25:40
  And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 9:48
  And He said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes the One who sent Me. For whoever is the least among all of you,…
Through
Mark 9:37
“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes not only Me, but the One who sent Me.”
leads to
- Matthew 10:40–42
  He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 18:3–5
  “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.