Matthew 13:58 Cross References

Matthew 13:58

58: And so he did only a few miracles there because of their unbelief.

And because of their unbelief, he couldn't do any mighty miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
And he was amazed at their unbelief. Then Jesus went out from village to village, teaching.

"Certainly there were many widows in Israel who needed help in Elijah's time, when there was no rain for three and a half years and hunger stalked the land.
Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a widow of Zarephath--a foreigner in the land of Sidon.
Or think of the prophet Elisha, who healed Naaman, a Syrian, rather than the many lepers in Israel who needed help."
When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious.
Jumping up, they mobbed him and took him to the edge of the hill on which the city was built. They intended to push him over the cliff,

Yes, but remember--those branches, the Jews, were broken off because they didn't believe God, and you are there because you do believe. Don't think highly of yourself, but fear what could happen.

So God's rest is there for people to enter. But those who formerly heard the Good News failed to enter because they disobeyed God.
So God set another time for entering his place of rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David a long time later in the words already quoted: "Today you must listen to his voice. Don't harden your hearts against him."
This new place of rest was not the land of Canaan, where Joshua led them. If it had been, God would not have spoken later about another day of rest.
So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God.
For all who enter into God's rest will find rest from their labors, just as God rested after creating the world.

Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.
You must warn each other every day, as long as it is called "today," so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.
For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.
But never forget the warning: "Today you must listen to his voice. Don't harden your hearts against him as Israel did when they rebelled."
And who were those people who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Weren't they the ones Moses led out of Egypt?

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