MATTHEW 12:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.”
And in his name the Gentiles will hope. The Isaiah Servant Song's climax applied to Jesus: the Gentiles' hope is placed in him. The Gentile hope that the servant establishes is the universal dimension of the messianic mission that Matthew traces from the magi (chapter 2) through the centurion (chapter 8) to the Great Commission (chapter 28). The name in which the Gentiles hope is the name Matthew announced in 1:21: Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
Church Fathers on Matthew 12:21
The Pharisees are moved with jealousy at what had been done; because beholding the outward body of a man, they did not recognize the God in His works; 'The Pharisees sent out and sought counsel against him, how they ought destroy him.'
He says, 'went out' because their mind was alien from the Lord. They took counsel how they might destroy life, not how themselves might find life.
Knowing, that is, their designs against Him withdrew Himself, that He might remove from the Pharisees all opportunity of sin.
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