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2241 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1000.21 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal purifications from ceremonial pollutions enjoined by the law of God, and many more by the tradition of the elders. The Jews eat not, except they wash …
2242 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1002.60 (Matthew Henry)
… . The legal services were figures of the true, Hebrews 9:3, 9:24. Those that revolted from Christianity to Judaism are said to begin in the spirit, and end in the …
2243 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.72 (Matthew Henry)
… as legal proof, nor allow it to be given in evidence .” Now, 1. This reflects reproach upon the sons of men, and their veracity and integrity. Surely we may say deliberately …
2244 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.2 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal prosecution, in consideration of which he kept at a distance in another part of the country, very much out of the lines of Jerusalem’s communication …
2245 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.32 (Matthew Henry)
… indictments legally and regularly quashed.
2246 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.167 (Matthew Henry)
… first legally tried and convicted. Farewell justice and order if every man pretend to execute a law at his pleasure. Besides, they had said but just now that …
2247 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1008.80 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal process. See Revelation 12:13. Or, 2. Because he persevered in the same testimony concerning himself, they persisted in their malice against him. What …
2248 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1011.70 (Matthew Henry)
… the legal worship was. [2.] Or in works of charity: That he should give something to the poor. By this it appears, First, That our Lord Jesus, though he lived upon alms …
2249 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1012.87 (Matthew Henry)
… no legal power against him, and therefore, though he prevailed to crucify him, he could not prevail to terrify him; though he hurried him to death, yet not to despair …
2250 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1016.75 (Matthew Henry)
… more legally and regularly, according to the present constitution of their government, since they became a province of the empire; not stoned in a popular …
2251 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.31 (Matthew Henry)
… discharged, legally discharged, from their imprisonment ( Acts 5:19 ): The angel of the Lord by night, in spite of all the locks and bars that were upon them, opened …
2252 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.32 (Matthew Henry)
… , and legally charged, to go on with their work, so as thereby to be discharged from the prohibition which the high priest laid them under; the angel bade them …
2253 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.35 (Matthew Henry)
… a legal discharge. God raised him up. 2. The proofs of his resurrection were incontestably clear; for God showed him openly. He gave him to be made manifest — edoken …
2254 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1031.9 (Matthew Henry)
III. It also magnified his deliverance very much that an angel was sent from heaven on purpose to rescue him, which made his escape both practicable and warrantable. This angel brought him a legal discharge, and enabled him to make use of it.
2255 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1032.43 (Matthew Henry)
… and legal discharge from the arrest he was under ( Acts 13:30 ): God raised him from the dead, sent an angel on purpose to roll away the stone from the prison-door …
2256 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1035.58 (Matthew Henry)
… were legally discharged, and not till then, though they were illegally committed, and then, 1. They took leave of their friends: they went to the house of Lydia …
2257 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1038.56 (Matthew Henry)
… are legally entitled to infringed or entrenched upon, let them bring their action, take out a process, and the matter shall be fairly tried, and justice done …
2258 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1040.1 (Matthew Henry)
… and legal custody by the chief captain, who permitted him to speak for himself to the people, Acts 21:31-21:40. And so we have him made a prisoner, and shall never …
2259 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.20 (Matthew Henry)
… , or legal process, and therefore have a recourse to the barbarous method of assassination; they will come upon him suddenly, and stab him, if they can but get …
2260 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1042.30 (Matthew Henry)
… never legally committed to his custody as a criminal, he himself owns that nothing was laid to his charge worthy of bonds ( Acts 23:29 ), and he ought to have had …