Matthew 3

Matthew 3:2

Mat. 3:2. “Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The following are the places of the Old Testament from whence probably the Jews principally took their notion of the kingdom of heaven. Daniel 2:44; Daniel 2:45; Daniel 7:9-15; Psalms 96 , especially the last four verses; Psalms 50:1-7, compared with Daniel 7:9-15; Psalms 97 and 98, especially the last verse; Isaiah 2:1-6, and verse Isaiah 2:15, to the end; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 9:11; Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 24:23, and especially verses Isaiah 24:9-11, Isaiah 25, 26, 27; Isaiah 32:1-9; chap. 35; Isaiah 40:3-5; Isaiah 40:10; Isaiah 40:11; chap. 41; Isaiah 42:1-22; chap. 49; chap. 60-62; Isaiah 63:1-7; Isaiah 64:1-2; Isaiah 65:17, to the end; chap. 66; Jeremiah 23:5-9; Jeremiah 30:9; Jeremiah 30:31; Jeremiah 33, especially verse Jeremiah 33:15-16 ; Ezekiel 21:27; Ezekiel 34:20, to the end; Ezekiel 37:20, to the end, Hosea 2:16, to the end; Joe 2:28, to the end; Joe 3:9, to the end; Amos 9:11, to the end; Micah 4:1-9; chap. 5; chap. Micah 7:8, to the end; Obadiah 1:17, to the end, especially verse Obadiah 1:15-16; Nahum 1:15; Zephaniah 3:8, to the end; Haggai 2:1-10; Haggai 2:21 to the end; Zechariah 2:11-13; chap. Zechariah 3:8-10; chap. Zechariah 6:9, to the end; Zechariah 8:20, to the end; Zechariah 9:9, to the end; Malachi 3:1-7; Malachi 3:16 to the end, and chap. 4.

Mat. 3:7

Matthew 3:7

Mat. 3:7. “Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” Having respect principally to that wrath that should come upon those of the Jews who should reject the Messiah and continue in impenitence, both in their rejection from being the people of God, and judicial hardening, and those many great calamities that nation suffered after Christ’s ascension, especially their dreadful overthrow by the Romans.

Mat. 5:1-11