Matthew 9:23 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult,

KJV

And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

To this day the damsel lays dead in the ruler's house; and they that seem to be teachers are but minstrels singing funeral dirges. The Jews also are not the crowd of believers, but of people making a noise. But when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in, then all Israel shall be saved.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

If he has power to give eternal life, as he certainly has ( John xvii. 2 ), he must have power to forgive sin; for guilt is a bar that must be removed, or we can never get to heaven. What an encouragement is this to poor sinners to repent, that the power of pardoning sin is put into the hands of the Son of man, who is bone of our bone!

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Saw the minstrels and the people making a noise - Αυλητας, pipers; Anglo-Saxon the whistlers; Gothic, haurngans haurngandans, the horn-blowers blowing with their horns. Nearly the same as the pipublasara, pipe-blowers of the Islandic: for among all those nations funeral lamentations accompanied with such rude instruments, were made at the death of relatives. That pipes were in use among the Jews, in times of calamity or death, is evident from Jer 48:36. And among the Greeks, and Romans, as well as among the Jews, persons were hired on purpose to follow the funeral processions with lamentations.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐλθὼν	elthōn	having come	G2064 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
οἰκίαν	oikian	house	G3614 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
ἄρχοντος	archontos	ruler	G758 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἰδὼν	idōn	having seen	G1492 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
αὐλητὰς	aulētas	flute players	G834 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ὄχλον	ochlon	crowd	G3793 →
θορυβούμενον	thoruboumenon	making a commotion	G2350 →

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
Matthew 11:17
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
leads to
- Isaiah 28:9–13
  Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
- Isaiah 30:29
  You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD,…
- Jeremiah 9:17–20
  This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
- Jeremiah 31:4
  Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
Through
2 Chronicles 35:25
Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in…
leads to
- Lamentations 4:20
  The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
- Jeremiah 22:10
  Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
- Jeremiah 9:17–21
  This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
- Job 3:8
  May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.