None of Christ’s miracles are recorded in this chapter, but four of his discourses. Here is, I. A conference with the Pharisees, who challenged him to show them a sign from heaven, Matt. 16:1–4. II. Another with his disciples about the leaven of the Pharisees, Matt. 16:5–12. III.

We have here Christ’s discourse with the Pharisees and Sadducees, men at variance among themselves, as appears Acts 23:7–8, and yet unanimous in their opposition to Christ; because his doctrine did equally overthrow the errors and heresies of the Sadducees, who denied the existence of spirits and a…

We have here Christ’s discourse with his disciples concerning bread, in which, as in many other discourses, he speaks to them of spiritual things under a similitude, and they misunderstand him of carnal things.

We have here a private conference which Christ had with his disciples concerning himself. It was in the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, the utmost borders of the land of Canaan northward; there in that remote corner, perhaps, there was less flocking after him than in other places, which gave him…

We have here Christ’s discourse with his disciples concerning his own sufferings; in which observe, I. Christ’s foretelling of his sufferings. Now he began to do it, and from this time he frequently spake of them.

Christ, having shown his disciples that he must suffer, and that he was ready and willing to suffer, here shows them that they must suffer too, and must be ready and willing. It is a weighty discourse that we have in these verses. I.