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4221 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.89 (Matthew Henry)
[2.] Improve this for your encouragement to trust in God. Are ye not much better than they ? Yes, certainly you are. Note, The heirs of heaven are much better than the …
4222 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 940.89 (Matthew Henry)
[9.] That Christ himself would so heartily espouse their cause, as to show himself a friend to all their friends, and to repay all the kindnesses that should at …
4223 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.32 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:19 ), chosen by Infinite Wisdom to that post of service and honour, for which neither man nor angel was qualified; none but Christ, that he might in all …
4224 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 942.89 (Matthew Henry)
[1.] The parable represents his possessing men’s bodies: Christ having lately cast out a devil, and they having said he had a devil, gave occasion to show how much …
4225 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 943.89 (Matthew Henry)
1. Jesus Christ is the true Treasure; in him there is an abundance of all that which is rich and useful, and will be a portion for us: all fulness ( Colossians 1:19 …
4226 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 944.89 (Matthew Henry)
Thirdly, The remedy he had recourse to in this distress, the old, tried, approved remedy, and that was prayer: he cried, Lord, save me. Observe, 1. The manner of his praying …
4227 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 945.89 (Matthew Henry)
4. The happy issue and success of all this. She came off with credit and comfort from this struggle; and, though a Canaanite, approved herself a true daughter …
4228 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.50 (Matthew Henry)
… ,” Psalms 89:15. Blessed are your eyes, Matthew 13:16. All happiness attends the right knowledge of Christ.
4229 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 946.89 (Matthew Henry)
2. It savoured much of fleshly wisdom, for him to appear so warmly against suffering, and to startle thus at the offence of the cross. It is the corrupt part of …
4230 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 947.89 (Matthew Henry)
[2.] The fish came up, with money in the mouth of it, which represents to us the reward of obedience in obedience. What work we do at Christ’s command brings its own …
4231 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 948.89 (Matthew Henry)
(6.) Convinced sinners cannot but humble themselves before God, and pray for mercy. The servant, under this charge, and this doom, fell down at the feet of his royal …
4232 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 949.89 (Matthew Henry)
[1.] Losses for Christ are here supposed. Christ had told them that his disciples must deny themselves in all that is done to them in this world; now here he specifies …
4233 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 950.89 (Matthew Henry)
Lastly, These blind men, when they had received sight, followed him. Note, None follow Christ blindfold. He first by his grace opens men’s eyes, and so draws their …
4234 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 951.89 (Matthew Henry)
II. A general appeal upon the parable; Whether of them twain did the will of his father ? Matthew 21:31. They both had their faults, one was rude and the other was …
4235 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 952.89 (Matthew Henry)
[3.] Therefore there must certainly be a future state, in which, as God will ever live to be eternally rewarding, so Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, will ever live to be …
4236 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 952.109 (Matthew Henry)
… Psalms 89:35, 89:36, I will not lie unto David; his seed shall endure for ever ( Isaiah 9:7 ), upon the throne of David. And Isaiah 11:1; A rod out of the stem of Jesse. The covenant …
4237 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 953.89 (Matthew Henry)
3. The pretence of religion in this; they scourged them in their synagogues, their place of worship, where they kept their ecclesiastical courts; so that they …
4238 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 954.89 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) To the eternal judgment; so the judgment of the great day is called, Hebrews 6:2. Though notice has been given of it from Enoch, yet, when it comes, it will be unlooked …
4239 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 955.89 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) The glory conferred upon them; the sentence by which they shall be not only acquitted, but preferred and rewarded ( Matthew 25:34 ); The king shall say unto them …
4240 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 956.89 (Matthew Henry)
What Peter said the rest subscribed to; likewise also said all the disciples. Note, 1. There is a proneness in good men to be over-confident of their own strength …