Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Matthew 22:9
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
The highways – Literally, the exit or going out of the paths or roads. It means the square or principal street, into which a number of smaller streets enter; a place, therefore, of confluence, where many persons would be seen, and persons of all descriptions. By this is represented the offering of the gospel to the Gentiles. They were commonly regarded among the Jews as living in highways and hedges cast out and despised.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. Go ye therefore into the highways] , cross or by-paths; the places where two or more roads met in one, leading into the city, where people were coming together from various quarters of the country. St. Luke adds hedges, to point out the people to whom the apostles were sent, as either miserable vagabonds, or the most indigent poor, who were wandering about the country, or sitting by the sides of the ways and hedges, imploring relief. This verse points out the final rejection of the Jews, and the calling of the Gentiles. It was a custom among the Jews, when a rich man made a feast, to go out and invite in all destitute travellers. See in Rab. Beracoth, fol. 43.
As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage] God sends his salvation to every soul, that all may believe and be saved.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
9. Go ye therefore into thehighwaysthe great outlets and thoroughfares, whether of townor country, where human beings are to be found.
and as many as ye shall find,bid to the marriagethat is, just as they are.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Go ye therefore into the highways,…. Either of the city, which were open and public, and where much people were passing to and fro; or of the fields, the high roads, where many passengers were travelling; and may design the Gentile world, and Gentile sinners, who, in respect of the Jews, were far off; were walking in their own ways, and in the high road to destruction; and may denote their being the vilest of sinners, and as having nothing to recommend them to the divine favour, and to such privileges as this entertainment expresses:
and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage; to the marriage feast, not the marriage supper, but the dinner, Mt 22:4, their orders were to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature, Jew or Gentile, high or low, rich or poor, outwardly righteous, or openly profane, greater or lesser sinners, and exhort them to attend the Gospel ministry, and ordinances.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The partings of the highways ( ). Vulgate, exitus viarum. are cross-streets, while (double compound) seem to be main streets leading out of the city where also side-streets may branch off, “by-ways.”
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
Highways [] . Literally, the word means a way out through; passage, outlet, thoroughfare. The idea of crossings grows out of the junction of the smaller cross – ways with the trunk roads.
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament
9. Go therefore to the highways. Having shown that they are unworthy of the grace of God who disdainfully reject it when offered to them, he now says that their place is supplied by others, by the mean and despised common people. And here is described the calling of the Gentiles, which is to excite the Jews to jealousy, as we have it in the Song of Moses;
They have provoked me by those who are not gods, and I will provoke them by that which is not a people, and by a foolish nation will I enrage them, (Deu 32:21.)
Having been first elected, they imagined that the grace of God was bound to them, as if God could not want them; and how haughtily they despised all others is well known. Thus by way of admission, he compares the Gentiles to the poor, the blind, and the lame. He says that they are called from the cross-roads, and from the streets, as strangers and unknown persons; but yet declares that they will occupy that place which friends and domestics had treated with indifference. What the prophets had obscurely foretold about creating a new church is now plainly expressed. This dishonor was the completion of the divine vengeance on the Jews, when God
cut them off, and ingrafted wild branches into the stock of the olive-tree, (Rom 11:17😉
when he threw them off, and received the polluted and filthy Gentiles into his house. But if at that time he spared not the natural branches, (Rom 11:21,) the same punishment will this day be inflicted on us, if we do not answer to his call. The supper which had been prepared for us will not be lost, but God will invite other guests.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(9) Into the highways.Literally, the openings of the ways, the places where two or more roads met, and where, therefore, there was a greater probability of meeting way-farers. In the interpretation of the parable, we may see in this feature of it a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles, and find an apt illustration of it in St. Pauls words when he turned from the Jews of the Pisidian Antioch who counted, themselves unworthy of eternal life (Act. 13:46) to the Gentiles who were willing to receive it.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
9. Into the highways Not into the country, as some might think; for the whole transaction belongs to the city. The word highways seems to signify the intersection of the city streets; which, were the natural places to find the largest number of men to invite. The king had at first invited the select classes; but they having refused to come, he now sends for the despised and poor.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“Go you therefore to the partings of the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage feast.”
So He told His servants to go to those who were outside the rebellious city, to those who would be found at the parting of the highways, the road intersections, where men presumably gathered, men who had received no invitation. And whoever they found there they were to bid to the marriage feast. The city authorities, with their cronies, may reject the king’s son, but there would be many who would not (as His welcome into Jerusalem by the pilgrims had demonstrated). And by eating at His table they were indicating their loyalty to Him.
The disciples would have been in no doubt that this was to be their responsibility. They were to go to the very same kind of people as Jesus had gone to in Galilee, the poor, and the needy, and the lame, and the blind.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Mat 22:9 . ] to the crossings of the roads , where people were in the habit of congregating most. It is evident from Mat 22:7 , according to which the city is destroyed , that what is meant is not, as Kypke and Kuinoel suppose, the squares in the city from which streets branch off, but the places where the country roads cross each other. Comp. Babyl. Berac . xliii. 1. Gloss.: “Divitibus in more fuit, viatores pauperes ad convivia invitare.”
Fuente: Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer’s New Testament Commentary
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Ver. 9. Go ye therefore to the highways ] Those sinners of the Gentiles, Gal 2:15 , who wandered in their own ways, Act 14:16 , and were, till now, without God in the world,Eph 4:18Eph 4:18 . These are those other husbandmen, to whom the householder would let out his vineyard, Mat 21:41-43 , which truth to illustrate, this parable is purposely uttered, and principally, as it may seem intended.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Mat 22:9 . is variously interpreted: at the crossing-places of the country roads (Fritzsche, De Wette, Meyer, Goebel); or at the places in the city whence the great roads leading into the country start (Kypke, Loesner, Kuinoel, Trench, Weiss). “According as we emphasisc one or other prep. in the compound word, either: the places whence the roads run out, or Oriental roads passing into the city through gates” (Holtz, H. C.). The second view is the more likely were it only because, the time pressing, the place where new guests are to be found must be near at hand. In the open spaces of the city, strangers from the country as well as the lower population of the town could be met with; the foreign element = Gentiles, mainly in view.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
Go ye therefore, &c. After the present Dispensation.
into = upon. Greek. epi. App-104.
the highways = the public roads, or crossroads. Greek. diexodos. Occurs only here.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Mat 22:9. , the cross ways) It would be pleasant to see a map of the journeys of all the apostles through the world, like that of St Pauls Voyages and Travels.- signifies the whole road,-, the parts, and as it were, branches of it.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
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The world-wide call. Mat 28:16-20; Rev 22:17
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Pro 1:20-23, Pro 8:1-5, Pro 9:4-6, Isa 55:1-3, Isa 55:6, Isa 55:7, Mar 16:15, Mar 16:16, Luk 14:21-24, Luk 24:47, Act 13:47, Eph 3:8, Rev 22:17
Reciprocal: Pro 8:3 – General Pro 9:3 – sent Isa 62:10 – go through Mat 13:47 – and gathered Mat 20:7 – Go Luk 14:23 – Go Rom 10:20 – I was made Heb 4:6 – some
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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When the Jews had been given the first opportunity of accepting the Gospel and they rejected it, the servants of Christ turned to the Gentiles. This is clearly taught in Act 3:26; Act 13:46; Act 28:27-28.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
[Go ye into the highways, etc.] That is, ‘Bring in hither the travellers.’ “What is the order of sitting down to meat? The travellers come in and sit down upon benches or chairs, till all are come that were invited.” The Gloss; “It was a custom among rich men to invite poor travellers to feasts.”
Fuente: Lightfoot Commentary Gospels
Mat 22:9. The partings of the highways. Places where streets meet, public squares, etc., in the kings city, Gods world, not Jerusalem. Some refer it to the outlets of country-roads, of highways, in the English sense, applying it to the going out into the distant world to invite the Gentiles. In Luk 14:23, where hedges is added, the latter meaning is evident.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
22:9 {3} Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
(3) God first calls us when we think nothing of it.