Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
A bruised reed (kalamon suntetrimmenon). Perfect passive participle of suntribw. A crushed reed he will not break. The curious augment in kateacei (future active indicative) is to be noted. The copyists kept the augment where it did not belong in this verb (Robertson, Grammar, p. 1212) even in Plato. "Smoking flax" (linon tufomenon). The wick of a lamp, smoking and flickering and going out. Only here in N.T. Flax in Exodus 9:31. Vivid images that picture Jesus in the same strain as his own great words in Matthew 11:28-30.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 12:20:
Matthew 1:22
Luke 3:21
John 19:31
Ephesians 6:16
Hebrews 11:34
1 John 5:4
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