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97181 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.38 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Luke 7:35 ): Wisdom is justified of all her children. There are those who are given to wisdom as her children, and they shall be brought by the grace of God to submit …
97182 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.40 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Luke 7:36 ): One of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him, either because he thought it would be a reputation to him to have such a guest at his table …
97183 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.44 (Matthew Henry)
… , Luke 7:42, 7:47. She washed his feet, in token of her ready submission to the meanest office in which she might do him honour. Nay, she washed them with her tears, tears …
97184 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.45 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Luke 7:39 ): He said within himself (little thinking that Christ knew what he thought), This man, if he were a prophet, would then have so much knowledge as to perceive …
97185 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.46 (Matthew Henry)
… , Luke 7:40. Though he was kindly entertained at his table, yet even there he reproved him for what he saw amiss in him, and would not suffer sin upon him. Those whom …
97186 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.47 (Matthew Henry)
… , Luke 7:41-7:43. A man had two debtors that were both insolvent, but one of them owed him ten times more than the other. He very freely forgave them both, and did not …
97187 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.51 (Matthew Henry)
… ? Luke 7:44. Thou lookest upon her with contempt, but consider how much kinder a friend she is to me than thou art; should I then accept thy kindness, and refuse hers …
97188 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.52 (Matthew Henry)
… , Luke 7:47. He owns that she had been guilty of many sins : “But they are forgiven her, and therefore it is no way unbecoming in me to accept her kindness. They are forgiven …
97189 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 981.53 (Matthew Henry)
… , Luke 7:48. Note, The more we express our sorrow for sin, and our love to Christ, the clearer evidence we have of the forgiveness of our sins; for it is by the experience …
97190 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 982.6 (Matthew Henry)
… , Luke 7:37. Dr. Lightfoot, finding in some of the Talmudists’ writings that Mary Magdalene signified Mary the plaiter of hair, thinks it applicable to her, she …
97191 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 982.7 (Matthew Henry)
3. Another of them was Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward. She had been his wife (so some), but was now a widow, and left in good circumstances. If she was now …
97192 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 982.19 (Matthew Henry)
(7.) It is not enough that the fruit be brought forth, but it must be brought to perfection, it must be fully ripened. If it be not, it is as if there was no fruit at all …
97194 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 982.41 (Matthew Henry)
7. When the devil’s power is broken in any soul that soul recovers itself, and returns into a right frame, which supposes that those whom Satan gets possession …
97195 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7-9:9. III. The apostles’ return to Christ, his retirement with them into a place of solitude, the great resort of people to them notwithstanding, and his feeding …
97196 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.6 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:7, 9:8 .
97197 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.7 (Matthew Henry)
2. The great perplexity it created in the mind of Herod: When he had heard of all that was done by Christ, his guilty conscience flew in his face, and he was ready …
97198 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.11 (Matthew Henry)
… ox. 7. Those whom Christ feeds he fills; to whom he gives, he gives enough; as there is in him enough for all, so there is enough for each. He replenishes every hungry …
97199 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.31 (Matthew Henry)
7. It is here added, concerning the cloud that overshadowed them, that they feared as they entered into the cloud. This cloud was a token of God’s more peculiar …
97200 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 983.44 (Matthew Henry)
… 50:7 ), not only not run down, but received up. How should this shame us for, and shame us out of, our backwardness to do and suffer for Christ! We draw back, and turn our …