“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
18. Lo, my servant, whom I have chosen. To fix our attention more closely on his will, God points out by the finger, as it were, the person whom he is about to send; and this is the design of the exclamation, Lo! A similar reason may be assigned for the epithets that follow, when God calls him his servant, his elect in whom his soul is well pleased.
The Pharisees raged at His miracles, not truly caring about the sabbath law they pretended to uphold, their real fury was that His doctrine opposed their pride and hypocrisy. They resolved not merely to imprison or banish Him, but to destroy Him, the very source of life, treating the Glory of Israel as an outlaw and plague.
AI summary
Commenting on Matthew 12:14-21
And all the people were amazed,.... At the cure; it was such an instance of divine power, and so glaring a proof, that the person who wrought it was more than a man, and must be the Messiah. This is to be understood of the greater part of the people, not of every individual, and of the common people only; for it had a different...