Teks -- Matthew 11:13 (NET)

11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared.

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Wesley: Mat 11:13 - For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John

For all that is written in the law and the prophets only foretold as distant what is now fulfilled. In John the old dispensation expired, and the new began. Luk 16:16.

Clarke: Mat 11:13 - All the prophets and the law prophesied until John

All the prophets and the law prophesied until John - I believe προεφητευσαν means here, they taught, or continued to instruct. They were the instructers concerning the Christ who was to come, till John came and showed that all the predictions of the one, and the types and ceremonies of the other were now about to be fully and finally accomplished; for Christ was now revealed. The word is taken in this sense, Mat 7:22.

Calvin: Mat 11:13 - All the Prophets and the Law itself Prophesied

Mat 11:13.All the Prophets and the Law itself Prophesied. The word prophesied is emphatic; for the Law and the Prophets did not present God before the eyes of men, but represented him under figures and shadows as absent. The comparison, we now perceive, is intended to show, that it is highly criminal in men to remain indifferent, when they have obtained a manifestation of the presence of God, who held his ancient people in suspense by predictions. Christ does not class John with the ministers of the Gospel, though he formerly assigned to him an intermediate station between them and the Prophets. But there is no inconsistency here: for although John’s preaching was a part of the Gospel, it was little more than a first lesson.

Defender: Mat 11:13 - until John

John was not the last of the Old Testament prophets, as some have thought, but the first of the New Testament prophets (see note on Mat 3:1)."

TSK: Mat 11:13

Mat 5:17, Mat 5:18; Mal 4:6; Luk 24:27, Luk 24:44; Joh 5:46, Joh 5:47; Act 3:22-24, Act 13:27; Rom 3:21

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Poole: Mat 11:13 - Prophesied

It is no wonder that there was such a heat kindled in the souls of people upon John the Baptist’ s coming, for they understood that Christ, typified in the law, and only foretold by the prophets, was now come. So as the ceremonial law from his time began to die, and all the prophecies of Christ in the prophets began then to have their complement. John showed them with his finger him who before had been only darkly revealed under types and figures, and in the prophecies of the prophets; men came to see that they had not hoped or waited in vain for the salvation of Israel.

Prophesied in this verse, signifies, made dark revelations of Christ and the kingdom of heaven.

Haydock: Mat 11:13 - All the prophets and the law prophesied until John

All the prophets and the law prophesied until John: as if he had said, all they who prophesied before, foretold the coming of the Messias; but now John points him out present with you, so that now all the types and figures of the ancient law will be fulfilled, and are at an end. (Witham)

Gill: Mat 11:13 - For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. These words are to be considered in connection with Mat 11:11 and are a further proof of John's being greater than any of the prophets; because all the inspired writers and prophets, who were before him, prophesied of the Messiah as to come; and either spoke of him in obscure terms, or represented him under dark shadows and figures: whereas John spake of him as already come, and in plain terms, and directed to his very person; and since his time, there have been no prophecies concerning the Messiah and his kingdom; vision and prophecy are now sealed up; all which are acknowledged by the Jews themselves, who ^b say, כל הנביאים כולז לא נתנבאו אלא לימות המשיח, "all the prophets did not prophesy but to, or of the days of the Messiah". This was the subject, and these the limits of their prophecies; for they own ^c, that

"from the day that the temple was destroyed, מן הנביאי בטילה נבואה, "prophecy was taken away from the prophets".''

Since that time, they confess they have had no prophet ^d, and that they are not able to observe their signs.