42 And as«he was yer a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him ; and Jefus rebuked the unclean {pi- rit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his facher.
See the Nutes on Mutth, 17. 14. Miuk 9. 14+
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| 43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of any * God : bur while they wondred every one at all things which Jefus d:d, he fairh unto his diſciples,
ll. 44 * Ler theſe ſayings ſink down into your ears, | for the fon of man ſhall be delivered into the hands of
liph! men. gs ; 45 * Pur they underſtood not this ſaying, and ir was _ nia from them, that they perceived ir not; and they feared The &;-.to asK him of that ſaying. hath Of the Peoples Aſtoniinment and -Amazement at the ſight of | us 4 Chriſt's Miracles, we often hear much ; of their embracing him, as abLifh- their Saviour, and owning him as the Chriſt, we read little, Thus and it far many of them were comcz indeed the moſt (the Scribes and y had Phariſees, and Sadducees only excepted) believed Chriſt was a great ſuer- Priphet, a Man ſent of God : authorized by God to reveal his re de Will, and impowered from God to do many things which none but be th! God had 9rizinally a Power to do. Others were gone 4 ſtep farther, '1z. t9 believe not only that he was 2 Prophet, bat that Prophet fore- ew told by Jbſes, Deut. 18. 15. Fohn 8. 21, 45+ the Chriſt of God, as > GItel Peter expretied it, he that ſhould redeem Iſrael, Luke 24. 21s That and {cy had not a_truc Notion of the Meſſizs, either as to his Perſon, that the Divine and Humane Nature were united in his Perſon 3 or + ic, * 3 to his Work , that it was not to redeem Iſrael from their bodily ſer- "ol _ Vitade, but from their Sins only, will appear to any from the wnole
Hiſtory of the Goſpel. Nor indeed doth our Saviour haſten their | Faith in this Revelation, I mean, the perfefting and confirming of & 1% | It, knowing that it would be a areat ſhaking to their Faith in him in «11s Notion {and indeed as the Mzftas) to fee him fo ſhamefully abu- ied by the vileſt abje&ts of the People (as he was at his Paſſion.) ind then hanging upon the Crofs, and dying, until they ſhould alfo c him by his own Power riſen from the Dead, and beconfirmed concerning the truth of his -Refurretion, Where therefore ne ſaw
,< Fot Ms tred of precious Faith ſpringing up, as it did it» Peter and divers | PU6KS, (95119 IC 35 Dann dfprehended him more then Man,)} as he did
26 For * whoſoever ſhall be aſhamed of me and of
} 8 _- Chap. IX.
not diſcourage nor blame it, but highly commended it ; fo neither , d1d he pleaſe to ſtrengthen it, to as to put them out of ali doubt 4- bout it, and often charged them not to publiſh it abroad, and tends aiunſelf to prepare them againſt this great Obſtacle, which be ſav would be in their way, to wit, his ſufferings. This is the ſecond time new that in this Chapter we find him inculcatiny It. ard there was need of it, for the Evangelif telleth us, that they underſtood it mt, 1t was hidden from them. They couid eaſily undartiand tow an ordinary Prophe: might be delivered into the hangs of men ; but 22> the Meſſias, the Chri, that Prophet, he, of whom ſome of them te lieved that he was more than a meer Man, how he thou!ld be thus delivered, thus ſuffer, they could not underſtand ; and they ſaw Chriſt as to this point ſo reſerved and private, and forbidding the
publication of it, that they feared to be too particular with him 409ut 1t,
45 Then there aroſe a reaſoning among them, which of them ſhould be greateſt.
47 And Jeſus perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and ſer him by him.
43 And faid unto them, Whoſoever ſhall receive this child in my name, receiveth me, and wholvever ſhall ce- celve me, recetveth him that ſent me, for he that is leaſt among you all, the ſame ſhall be grear.
Sce the Notes on Matth. 18. 1. Mark 9. 33. This Paragraph ſhew- eth what need there was of the preceding Diſcourſe, that our Sav1- our ſhould prepare them with a preinforming them about his Suffer- ng; that when they ſaw it, their Faith in him, as the Methah. might not fail 3 for they were poſſeſſed with the common Notion of their Country, that the Meſſias ſhould deliver them from the Tem- poral Pretfures which they were under, and exerciſe a. Civil or Mili- tary {cular Power ; this made them think of places of Priority and Greatneſs, about which we often find them diſputing. Our Lore. to bring them off that falſe Notion of him and his Kingdom, he ta- keth a Child, and {-tteth him before them, and ſ:ith, Whyever ſha recetve t:)s Child, &e. What Labe ſaith, mutt be interpreted by what we had before in Matthew and Marh. This Child, that is, one that 15 as humble 2s this Chitd, &c. Sce the Notes before men» tioned,
49 * And John anſwered and ſaid, Maſter, we ſaw one * Sc? Num. caſting out devils in thy name, and we forbad him, becauſe *!- 28- he followeth not with us.
5o And Jeſus {aid unto him, Forbid him not, for * he * Chap. 13. that {s not againſt us is for us, | 23-
Mark taith farther, that Chriſt added, For there s no man which ſhall ds a miracle in my name, that can lightly ſpeak evil of me. Sce the Notes on Mark 9. 38, 39.