Produced by Anne Folland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D. ST. MATTHEW _Chaps. IX to XXVIII_ EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D. ST. MATTHEW _Chaps. IX to XVII_ CONTENTS CHRIST'S ENCOURAGEMENTS (Matt. ix. 2) SOUL-HEALING FIRST: BODY-HEALING SECOND (Matt. ix. 6) THE CALL OF MATTHEW (Matt. ix. 9-17) THE TOUCH OF FAITH AND THE TOUCH OF CHRIST (Matt. ix. 18-31) A CHRISTLIKE JUDGMENT OF MEN (MATT. ix. 36) THE OBSCURE APOSTLES (Matt. x. 5) CHRIST'S CHARGE TO HIS HERALDS (Matt. x. 5-16) THE WIDENED MISSION, ITS PERILS AND DEFENCES (Matt. x. 16-31) LIKE TEACHER, LIKE SCHOLAR (Matt x. 24, 25) THE KING'S CHARGE TO HIS AMBASSADORS (Matt. x. 32-42) A LIFE LOST AND FOUND (Matt. x. 39) THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM, AND THEIR REWARD (Matt. x. 41, 42) JOHN'S DOUBTS OF JESUS, AND JESUS' PRAISE OF JOHN (Matt. xi. 2-15) THE FRIEND OF PUBLICANS AND SINNERS (Matt. xi. 19) SODOM, CAPERNAUM, MANCHESTER (Matt. xi. 20) CHRIST'S STRANGE THANKSGIVING (Matt. xi. 25) THE REST GIVER (Matt. xi. 28, 29) THE PHARISEES' SABBATH AND CHRIST'S (Matt. xii. 1-14) AN ATTEMPT TO ACCOUNT FOR JESUS (Matt. xii. 24) 'MAKE THE TREE GOOD' (Matt. xii. 33) 'A GREATER THAN JONAS' (Matt. xii. 41) 'A GREATER THAN SOLOMON' (Matt. xii. 42) FOUR SOWINGS AND ONE RIPENING (Matt. xiii. 1-9) EARS AND NO EARS (Matt. xiii. 9) 'TO HIM THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN' (Matt. xiii. 12) SEEING AND BLIND (Matt. xiii. 13) MINGLED IN GROWTH, SEPARATED IN MATURITY (Matt. xiii. 24-30) LEAVEN (Matt. xiii. 33) TREASURE AND PEARL (Matt. xiii. 44-46) THE MARTYRDOM OF JOHN (Matt. xiv. 1-12) THE GRAVE OF THE DEAD JOHN AND THE GRAVE OF THE LIVING JESUS (Matt. xiv. 12; xxviii. 8) THE FOOD OF THE WORLD (Matt. xiv. 19, 20) THE KING'S HIGHWAY (Matt. xiv. 22-36) PETER ON THE WAVES (Matt. xiv. 28) THB CRUMBS AND THE BREAD (Matt. xv. 21-31) THE DIVINE CHRIST CONFESSED, THE SUFFERING CHRIST DENIED (Matt. xvi. 13-28) CHRIST FORESEEING THE CROSS (Matt. xvi. 21) THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY (Matt. xvii, 1-13) THE SECRET OF POWER. (Matt. xvii. 19, 20) THE COIN IN THE FISH'S MOUTH (Matt. xvii. 25, 26) CHRIST'S ENCOURAGEMENTS 'Son, be of good cheer.'--MATT. ix. 2. This word of encouragement, which exhorts to both cheerfulness and courage, is often upon Christ's lips. It is only once employed in the Gospels by any other than He. If we throw together the various instances in which He thus speaks, we may get a somewhat striking view of the hindrances to such a temper of bold, buoyant cheerfulness which the world presents, and of the means for securing it which Christ provides.