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96781 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7-3:10 ), and so to bring them to Christ, Matthew 3:11, 3:12. II. The more glorious shining forth of the Sun of righteousness, immediately after: where we have, 1. The honour …
96782 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.7 (Matthew Henry)
III. His preaching. This he made his business. He came, not fighting, nor disputing, but preaching ( Matthew 3:1 ); for by the foolishness of preaching, Christ’s kingdom must be set up.
96783 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.19 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Luke 7:29, 7:30 ), that when the publicans justified God, and were baptized of John, the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being …
96784 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , Jeremiah 7:4. Note, Multitudes, by resting in the honours and advantages of their visible church-membership, take up short of heaven.
96785 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.32 (Matthew Henry)
… 15:7. Now he sits as a Refiner. Observe here [1.] The visible church is Christ’s floor; O my threshing, and the corn of my floor, Isaiah 21:10. The temple, a type of church …
96786 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 933.48 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Hosea 7:11 ), but like an innocent dove, without gall. The Spirit descended, not in the shape of an eagle, which is, though a royal bird, yet a bird of prey, but in the shape …
96787 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.7 (Matthew Henry)
1. He was directed to the combat; he did not wilfully thrust himself upon it, but he was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil. The Spirit that descended …
96788 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.30 (Matthew Henry)
… , Revelation 7:5, 7:11 .
96789 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.51 (Matthew Henry)
… 11:7. 2. He did go into the country as soon as he heard of John’s imprisonment; not only to provide for his own safety, knowing that the Pharisees in Judea were as …
96790 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.61 (Matthew Henry)
… , 14:7. Christ put a great respect upon John’s ministry, when he preached to the same purport that John had preached before him. By this he showed that John was …
96791 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 934.83 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:31 ); miracles of this nature ( Isaiah 35:5, 35:6 ); and we have this indisputable proof of his being the Messiah; never was there any man that did thus; and therefore …
96792 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.3 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7 ), Wherein shall we return ? He afterward preached upon the latter part of the text, when, in divers parables, he showed what the kingdom of heaven is like, Matthew …
96793 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.4 (Matthew Henry)
… 3:7, 12:18 It was foretold of Zebulun and Issachar, two of the tribes of Galilee ( Deuteronomy 33:19 ), that they shall call the people to the mountain; to this mountain …
96794 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.5 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Matthew 7:28 ), The people were astonished. No bounds were set about this mountain, to keep the people off, as were about mount Sinai ( Exodus 19:12 ); for, through Christ …
96795 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.7 (Matthew Henry)
Christ begins his sermon with blessings, for he came into the world to bless us ( Acts 3:26 ), as the great High Priest of our profession; as the blessed Melchizedec …
96796 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.23 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7, 55:2. (2.) They shall be filled with those blessings. God will give them what they desire to complete their satisfaction. It is God only who can fill a soul, whose …
96797 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.24 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:7. This, like the rest, is a paradox; for the merciful are not taken to be the wisest, nor are likely to be the richest; yet Christ pronounces them blessed. Those …
96798 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.29 (Matthew Henry)
… 120:7. It is to love, and desire, and delight in peace; to be put in it as in our element, and to study to be quiet. 2. A peaceable conversation; industriously, as far as …
96799 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.46 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Isaiah 7:18 ), men wondered at ( Zechariah 3:8 ); all their neighbours have any eye upon them. Some admire them, commend them, rejoice in them, and study to imitate them …
96800 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 935.58 (Matthew Henry)
… , Romans 7:7, 7:14. 2. Another mistake of theirs was, that this law was merely political and municipal, given for them, and intended as a directory for their courts …