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97341 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.31 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:23 ) they are said to receive it; it was not imposed upon them as a yoke, but conferred upon them as a favour. Note, The ordinances of God, and particularly those …
97342 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.33 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:23 ): A man-child on the sabbath day receives circumcision, that the law of circumcision might not be broken; or, as the margin reads it, without breaking …
97343 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.34 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:24 ): Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. This may be applied, either, First, In particular, to this work which they quarrelled …
97344 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.35 (Matthew Henry)
3. Christ discourses with them here concerning himself, whence he came, and whither he was going, John 7:25-7:36 .
97345 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.36 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) Whence he came, John 7:25-7:31. In the account of this observe,
97346 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.37 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:25. One would think that those who lived at the fountain-head of knowledge and religion should have been most ready to receive the Messiah: but it proved …
97347 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.38 (Matthew Henry)
… ? John 7:20. But those of Jerusalem knew the plot, and irritated their rulers to put it into execution: “ Isa. not this he whom they seek to kill ? Why do they not do it …
97348 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.39 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:27. “If the rulers think him to be the Christ, we neither can nor will believe him to be so, for we have this argument against it, that we know this man, whence …
97349 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.40 (Matthew Henry)
[2.] Christ’s answer to this objection, John 7:28, 7:29 .
97350 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.43 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:30. They sought therefore to take him, to lay violent hands on him, not only to do him a mischief, but some way or other to be the death of him; but by the restraint …
97351 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.44 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:31 ): Many of the people believed on him. As he was set for the fall of some, so for the rising again of others. Even where the gospel meets with opposition there …
97352 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.45 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) Whither he was going, John 7:32-7:36. Here observe,
97353 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.46 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:32. First, The provocation given them was that they had information brought them by their spies, who insinuated themselves into the conversation of …
97354 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.47 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:33, 7:34 ): Yet a little while I am with you, and then I go to him that sent me; you shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, thither you cannot come. These …
97355 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.51 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:37-7:39. It is probable that these are only short hints of what he enlarged upon, but they have in them the substance of the whole gospel; here is a gospel …
97356 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.58 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:38 ): He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow -- (1.) See here what it is to come to Christ: It is to believe on him, as the scripture hath said; it is to receive …
97357 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.60 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:39 ): This spoke he of the Spirit : not of any outward advantages accruing to believers (as perhaps some misunderstood him), but of the gifts, graces, and comforts …
97358 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.64 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:43. There was a schism, so the word is; there were diversities of opinions, and those managed with heat and contention; various sentiments, and those such …
97359 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.65 (Matthew Henry)
… ( John 7:41 ), not the prophet of the Messiah, but the Messiah himself. The Jews had at this time a more than ordinary expectation of the Messiah, which made them ready …
97360 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.67 (Matthew Henry)
… , John 7:44. Though what he said was most sweet and gracious, yet they were exasperated against him for it. Thus did our Master suffer ill for saying and doing well …