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Matthew 8:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Matthew 8:12

Verse 12 of 34

Scripture focus

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 8:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Matthew 8:12

Theological / Devotional

Children of the kingdom. See on ch. 3:9. The expression “sons of the kingdom” was a common Hebrew idiom descriptive of the rightful heirs of the kingdom.

Outer darkness. A symbol representing the final annihilation of the obdurately impenitent.

Weeping and gnashing. Matthew records several other instances when Jesus used this expression to describe the remorse of the lost as they contemplate their sad fate in contrast with the joy that might have been theirs (see chs. 13:42, 50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30). The same expression appears often in contemporary Jewish literature in descriptions of Gehenna (see on ch. 5:22).

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