Sermon Tone Analysis

Matthew 12.9-14

Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil?

to save life or to destroy it?”

(Luke 6:8, 9) or as in Mark (3:4) “to kill?”

He thus shuts them up to this startling alternative: ‘Not to do good, when it is in the power of our hand to do it, is to do evil; not to save life, when we can, is to kill’—and must the letter of the sabbath-rest be kept at this expense?

This unexpected thrust shut their mouths.

By this great ethical principle our Lord, we see, held Himself bound, as Man.

Brown, D., Fausset, A. R., & Jamieson, R. (n.d.).

A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Matthew–John: Vol.

V (p.

71).

William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited.

“When He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, He saith unto the man” (Mark 3:5).

Brown, D., Fausset, A. R., & Jamieson, R. (n.d.).

A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments: Matthew–John: Vol.

V (p.

71).

William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited.

The Pharisees were outraged.

In their fury, they determined to kill Jesus.

Ironically, the Pharisees had accused Jesus of breaking their law about healing on the Sabbath, yet they were planning (on the Sabbath) to kill him.

Their hatred drove them to plot murder—an act that was clearly against God’s law.

Barton, B., Comfort, P., Osborne, G., Taylor, L. K., & Veerman, D. (2001).

Life Application New Testament Commentary (p.

57).

Tyndale.