Matthew 14

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Template:New Testament chapter short description Template:Bible chapter Matthew 14 is the fourteenth chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament section of the Christian Bible. It continues the narrative about Jesus' ministry in Galilee and recounts the circumstances leading to the death of John the Baptist.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 36 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

Structure

This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to parallel passages in the other gospels):

  • Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". = Death of John the Baptist (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".)
  • Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". = Feeding the 5000 (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".)
  • Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". = Jesus' walk on water (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".)
  • Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". = Jesus healing in the land of Gennesaret (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".).

The reaction of Herod Antipas (14:1–12)

Herod Antipas (Herod the tetrarch) was the son of Herod who was king when Jesus was born (Matthew 2:1) and reigned over Galilee when Jesus performed his ministry in the area (cf. Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".; Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". His 'tender conscience over the reluctant execution of John the Baptist made him treating the report of Jesus' miracles with a 'bizarre idea' that Jesus was John who was risen from the dead.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Dale Allison notes the multiple parallels between the Passion of Jesus and the account of John the Baptist in this section.[1]

  • Both are captured (14:3; 21:46), bound (14:3; 27:2) and 'suffer the shameful deaths of criminals'.
  • Both are executed at the command of a government official (Herod the tetrarch; Pontius Pilate) who 'acts reluctantly at the request of others' (14:6–11; 27:11–26).
  • Both are buried by their disciples (14:12; 27:57–61), and in each case opponents fear what the crowds might do because they hold John and Jesus to be prophets (14:5; 21:46).
  • Both ends are foreshadowed, as in 2:1–23 (against Herod the Great, the father of Herod the tetrarch); 5:38–42; and 10:17–23, so John's martyrdom (as the forerunner) is a Christological martyrdom prophecy of the coming one (cf. 17:12).
  • John has been identified with Elijah (11:14), who in Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". accuses King Ahab of misdeeds while the evil Queen Jezebel tries to have him killed (probably applicable to Herod as Ahab and Herodias as Jezebel). In the very next pericope, Jesus suggestively acts like Elisha, Elijah's successor (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".).[1]

Verse 12

Then his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and went and told Jesus.[2]

This is a further mission of John's disciples to Jesus in Galilee, following on from the one reported in Matthew 11. For Ernest Bengel, interpreting the words of Lutheran Pietist Johann Bengel, "the death of their master becomes the means of leading [John's disciples] to Jesus".[3]

Jesus's withdrawal to a 'deserted place' (14:13–15)

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Miraculous feeding of a large crowd (14:16–21)

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Verse 19

Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.[5]

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Walking on water (14:22–33)

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Jesus the Healer (14:34–36)

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See also

References

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  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".: KJV
  3. ↑ Bengel, Johann. Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament: Matthew 14, editorial note, accessed 24 April 2019
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  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". NKJV

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Sources

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External links

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