Mat 19:1 | RWP | e4.org | He departed ( μετηρεν ). Literally, to lift up, change something to another place. Transitive in the LXX and in a Cilician rock inscription. Intransitive in and here, the only N.T. instances. Absence of οτ or κα after κα εγενετο , one of the clear Hebraisms in the N.T. (Robertson, Grammar , pp. 1042f.). This verse is a sort of formula in Matthew at the close of important groups of λογια as in ; ; . The borders of Judea beyond Jordan ( εις τα ορια της Ιουδαιας περαν του Ιορδανου ). This is a curious expression. It apparently means that Jesus left Galilee to go to Judea by way of Perea as the Galileans often did to avoid Samaria. Luke ( ) expressly says that he passed through Samaria and Galilee when he left Ephraim in Northern Judea ( ). He was not afraid to pass through the edge of Galilee and down the Jordan Valley in Perea on this last journey to Jerusalem. McNeile is needlessly opposed to the trans-Jordanic or Perean aspect of this phase of Christ's work.

‏ Matthew 19:1

He departed ( μετηρεν ). Literally, to lift up, change something to another place. Transitive in the LXX and in a Cilician rock inscription. Intransitive in 13:53 and here, the only N.T. instances. Absence of οτ or κα after κα εγενετο, one of the clear Hebraisms in the N.T. (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1042f.). This verse is a sort of formula in Matthew at the close of important groups of λογια as in 7:28; 11:1; 13:53.

The borders of Judea beyond Jordan ( εις τα ορια της Ιουδαιας περαν του Ιορδανου ). This is a curious expression. It apparently means that Jesus left Galilee to go to Judea by way of Perea as the Galileans often did to avoid Samaria. Luke (Lu 17:11) expressly says that he passed through Samaria and Galilee when he left Ephraim in Northern Judea (Joh 11:54). He was not afraid to pass through the edge of Galilee and down the Jordan Valley in Perea on this last journey to Jerusalem. McNeile is needlessly opposed to the trans-Jordanic or Perean aspect of this phase of Christ's work.