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97061 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 964.7 (Matthew Henry)

V. Let us see how Christ bore this contempt.

97062 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 964.40 (Matthew Henry)

… 6:7 ), to preach, and work miracles. They had dispersed themselves into several quarters of the country for some time, but when they had made good their several …

97064 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 964.64 (Matthew Henry)

7. They were more surprised and astonished at this miracle than did become them, and there was that at the bottom of their astonishment, which was really culpable …

97065 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.1 (Matthew Henry)

… ( Mark 7:1-7:13 ); and the needful instructions he gave to the people on that occasion, and further explained to his disciples, Mark 7:14-7:23. II. His curing of the woman …

97066 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.5 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:3, 7:4. 1. They washed their hands oft; they washed them, pygme; the critics find a great deal of work about that word, some making it to denote the frequency …

97067 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.6 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:2. Eating with unwashen hands they called eating with defiled hands; thus men keep up their superstitious vanities by putting every thing into an ill …

97068 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.7 (Matthew Henry)

… ( Mark 7:2 ); they censured them as profane, and men of a loose conversation, or rather as men that would not submit to the power of the church, to decree rites and ceremonies …

97069 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.9 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:14 ) lest he should have seemed to stir them up to faction and discontent at their governors; but addressed it as a reproof to the persons concerned: for …

97070 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.10 (Matthew Henry)

… ( Mark 7:6, 7:7 ); They honour me with their lips, they pretend it is for the glory of God that they impose those things, to distinguish themselves from the heathen …

97071 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.11 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:8. Note, Superstition is an endless thing. If one human invention and institution be admitted, though seemingly ever so innocent, as this of washing hands …

97072 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.12 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:9. He do fairly disannul and abolish the commandment of God; and even by your traditions make the word of God of no effect, Mark 7:13. God’s statutes shall …

97073 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.13 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:10. Hence it is easy to infer, that it is the duty of children, if their parents be poor, to relieve them, according to their ability; and if those children …

97074 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.14 (Matthew Henry)

… ( Mark 7:14 ), and bid them hear and understand. Note, It is not enough for the common people to hear, but they must understand what they hear. When Christ would run …

97075 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.15 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:15. (1.) Not by the meat we eat, though it be eaten with unwashen hands; that is but from without, and goes through a man. But, (2.) It is by the breaking out of the corruption …

97076 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.16 (Matthew Henry)

… ( Mark 7:17 ); for to them, it seems, it was a parable. Now, in answer to their enquiry, (1.) He reproves their dulness; “ Are ye so without understanding also ? Are ye dull also …

97077 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.19 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:26. Note, The greatest blessing we can ask of Christ for our children is, that he would break the power of Satan, that is, the power of sin, in their souls; and …

97078 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.20 (Matthew Henry)

… ( Mark 7:27 ); He said unto her, “ Let the children first be filled; let the Jews have all the miracles wrought for them, that they have occasion for, who are in a particular …

97079 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.21 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:28. She said, “ Yes, Lord, I own it is true that the children’s bread ought not to be cast to the dogs; but they were never denied the crumbs of that bread, nay it …

97080 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 965.22 (Matthew Henry)

… , Mark 7:29. This encourages us to pray and not to faint, to continue instant in prayer, not doubting but to prevail at last; the vision at the end shall speak, and …