Matthew 21:22 — Community Reflections

MATTHEW 21:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith. The prayer-promise connected to the faith-teaching: whatever is asked in faith-filled prayer will be received. The if you have faith qualifies the whatever: the faith that prays in alignment with the Father's will is the faith that receives what it asks. The fig tree's withering is the acted prayer of the one whose faith commanded it — and the disciples who share that faith can make similar requests.

Church Fathers on Matthew 21:22

A bad man is better overcome by giving way to him than by replying to him; for wickedness is not instructed but stimulated by reproof. The Lord accordingly sought by withdrawing Himself to check those whom His words could not check; whence it is said, 'And He left them, and went out of the city into Bethany.'
Pseudo-Chrysostom · 5th century

Hence it is to be understood that the Lord was in so great poverty, and so far from having courted any one, that He had found in all that city neither entertainer, nor abode, but He made His home in a little village, in the house of Lazarus and his sisters; for their village was Bethany; and it follows, 'and He lodged there.'
Jerome · 4th century

For in permitting His flesh to suffer that which properly pertains to flesh, He foreshews His passion. Mark the earnest zeal of the active labourer, Who is said to have gone early into the city to preach, and to gain some to His Father.
Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · ap. Anselm

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