Cleveland Bible Commentary on Matthew

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The Cleveland Bible Commentary?

By Syd Cleveland

The Cleveland Bible Commentary is a conservative, evangelical Christian commentary on the Holy Bible. It is a work in progress, thus not every Bible verse is currently addressed in this commentary. If you have questions concerning a specific Bible text not currently included, please contact the author at the e-mail address below and request a commentary for that text. There is no charge for this service for it helps to focus this commentary on the most studied texts.

Permission to use The Cleveland Bible Commentary in your personal study is freely given, however this Commentary is not in the public domain. The author retains all copyrights © and ownership of this commentary, world wide. This means you cannot copy, revise, change, republish, or distribute The Cleveland Bible Commentary in any way, including electronically, except as provided here. Nor may you use it in any manner other than for your own personal study, except as stated here, without my written permission. You may quote from The Cleveland Bible Commentary in materials used in your personal teaching at educational institutions, including churches and Bible classes sponsored by your church, as long as the quotation does not exceed twenty-five percent of the entire Cleveland Bible Commentary verse notes on any single chapter. For example, this means if I comment on twenty-four verses in Matthew chapter 19, you may directly quote my comments on six verses of your choice without permission.

When quoting, please include the following credit line: “Quoted from The Cleveland Bible Commentary, by Syd Cleveland, located at: http://www.christiancommunitychurch.us/ClevelandCommentary/Index.html. Thank you for being considerate in this matter.

The Cleveland Bible Commentary approaches Scripture from the bias that the Bible is the all-sufficient, all-inspired, inerrant Word of God, and the authoritative expression of God's will for every aspect of our lives (2 Peter 1:20-21; Proverbs 30:5-6; 2 Timothy 3:15-17).

This commentary is the result of careful study emphasizing the Inductive Bible Study method. Short quotations of Scripture are taken from The New International Version of the Bible, (c) 1973, 1978 by the International Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

Numerous conservative commentaries and Christian authorities have been consulted, including:

A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, W. Arndt, F. Gingrich, The University of Chicago Press

A Parsing Guide to the Greek New Testament, N. Han, Herald Press

A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, B. Metzger, United Bible Societies

Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible, J. Haley, Baker Book House

Barnes’ Notes on the Bible, Albert Barnes, Electronic Version

Blame It on the Brain?, E. T. Welch, P & R Publishing

Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew Definitions, Electronic Version

Commentary on the Old Testament, C. F. Keil, F. Delitzsch, Eerdmans

Commentary on the Bible, Adam Clarke, Electronic Version

Commentary on the Whole Bible, Matthew Henry, Electronic Version

Death and the Afterlife, Dr. Robert A. Morey, Bethany House

Difficulties in the Bible, R. A. Torrey, Whitaker House

Discoveries from the Time of Jesus, A. Millard, Lion Publishing

Easton’s Bible Dictionary, Electronic Version

Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, G. Archer, Zondervan

Encyclopedia of Religion, V. Ferm, Philosophical Library

Exposition of the Entire Bible, John Gill, Electronic Version

Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, Bullinger, Baker

Hard Sayings (5 volume series), InterVarsity Press

Harper's New Testament Commentaries, Hendrickson Publishers

Holman’s Bible Dictionary, Electronic Version

How to Help People Change, Jay E. Adams, Zondervan

Idioms in the Bible Explained, G. Lamsa, HarperCollins

In the Arena of the Mind, John Vandegriff, Ask, Seek, and Knock Publishing

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary, Electronic Version

Josephus Complete Works, Kregel Publications

Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible, Jay E. Adams, Zondervan

Mene, Mene, Tekel, a Lively Lexicon of Words and Phrases from the Bible, E. Ehrlich, D. Scott, HarperCollins

New Bible Commentary, 21st Century Edition, Wenham, Motyer, Carson, France, Inter-Varsity Press

Personal Holiness in Times of Temptation, Dr. Bruce H. Wilkinson, Walk Through the Bible Ministries

Revelation: Four Views, Steve Gregg, Nelson

Revelation: Holy Living in an Unholy World, M. Robert Mulholland, Jr., Francis Asbury Press

Self-Confrontation, A Manual for In-Depth Biblical Discipleship, John C. Broger, Biblical Counseling Foundation

Thayer’s Greek Definitions, Electronic Version

The Analytical Greek Lexicon, Zondervan

The Bible Almanac, Packer, Tenney, White, Guideposts

The Bible Knowledge Commentary, (2 volumes) Walvoord & Zook, Victor Books

The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Self-Image, Jay E. Adams, Harvest House

The Bondage Breaker, Neil T. Anderson, Harvest House

The Christ in the Bible Commentary, A. B. Simpson, Christian Publications

The Christian Book of Why, J. McCollister, Jonathan David Publishers

The Complete Word Study Dictionary, NT, S. Zodhiates, AMG Publishers

The Concise Dictionary of Christian Tradition, Douglass, Elwell, Toon, Marshall Pickering

The Concise Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, W. A. Elwell, Baker Book House

The Daily Study Bible Series, W. Barclay, The Westminster Press

The Expositor's Bible, W. Nicoll, A. C. Armstrong and Son

The Interlinear Bible, J. P. Greene, Baker Book House

The International Bible Commentary, F. F. Bruce, Zondervan

The Interpreter's Commentary on the Bible, C. M. Laymon, Abingdon

The Matthew Henry Commentary, M. Henry, Zondervan

The New Analytical Greek Lexicon, Wesley J. Perschbacher, Hendrickson Publishers

The NIV Application Commentary Series, Zondervan

The NIV Harmony of the Gospels, R. L. Thomas & S. N. Gundry, Harper & Row

The NIV Study Bible Notes, Zondervan

The Parallel New Testament In Greek and English, Zondervan

The Timetables of Jewish History, Gribetz, Greenstein, Stein, Simon & Schuster

The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, R. Tasker, Eerdmans

The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, C. F. Pfeiffer, E. F. Harrison, Moody Press

Theological Wordbook of the OT, Harris, Archer, Waltke, Moody Press

Victory Over Temptation, Dr. Bruce H. Wilkinson, Harvest House

Victory Over the Darkness, Neil T. Anderson, Regal

Vines Complete Expository Dictionary of OT and NT Words, Vine, Unger, White, Nelson Publishers

Zondervan’s Parallel New Testament In Greek and English, Zondervan

Additional commentaries or dictionaries may have been quoted, but acknowledgement was omitted through oversight. If you discover a portion of The Cleveland Commentary that was quoted from a source which I did not credit, please contact me so the oversight can be corrected. Thank you for your help.

The editor and author of this commentary is Sydney M. Cleveland. He is a non-denominational Christian pastor of more than twenty years experience, and, with his wife Sherry Cleveland, has authored more than thirty books about the Bible and Bible study guides.

Sydney Cleveland, 172 Suncrest Drive, Greenwood, IN 46143 317 885-8122

scleveland@prodigy.net

NOTICE! Permission to use The Cleveland Bible Commentary in your personal study is freely given, however this Commentary is not in the public domain. The author retains all copyrights © and ownership of this commentary, world wide. This means you cannot copy, revise, change, republish, or distribute The Cleveland Bible Commentary in any way, including electronically, except as provided here. Nor may you use it in any manner other than for your own personal study, except as stated here, without my written permission. You may quote from The Cleveland Bible Commentary in materials used in your personal teaching at educational institutions, including churches and Bible classes sponsored by your church, as long as the quotation does not exceed twenty-five percent of the entire Cleveland Bible Commentary verse notes on any single chapter. This means if I comment on twenty-four verses in Matthew chapter 19, you may directly quote my comments on six verses of your choice without permission.

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