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14201 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.32 (Matthew Henry)
… , Isaiah 38:9. [2.] He gives him a caution against sin, in consideration hereof, Being made whole, sin no more. This implies that his disease was the punishment of sin …
14202 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.38 (Matthew Henry)
2. Not only so, but he had said also that God was his Father. Now they pretend a jealousy for God’s honour, as before for the sabbath day, and charge Christ with it …
14203 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1003.85 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:38. They had the scriptures of the Old Testament; might they not by them be disposed to receive Christ? Yes, if they had had their due influence upon them. But …
14204 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.38 (Matthew Henry)
II. The success of this enquiry: They found him on the other side of the sea, John 6:25. Note, Christ will be found of those that seek him, first or last; and it is worth …
14205 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.59 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) He here shows what his undertaking was, and what his errand into the world. Laying aside the metaphor, he speaks plainly, and speaks no proverb, giving us an account of his business among men, John 6:38-6:40 .
14206 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.60 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:38 ), not do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. He came from heaven, which bespeaks him an intelligent active being, who voluntarily descended to this …
14207 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1004.62 (Matthew Henry)
… 6:38 ): “ This is the Father’s will, who hath sent me; this is the charge I am entrusted with, that of all whom he hath given me I should lose none .” Note, 1. There is a certain …
14208 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.38 (Matthew Henry)
First, By their reflecting on the rulers, because they let him alone: Isa. not this he whom they seek to kill ? The multitude of the people that came up out of the …
14209 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1005.58 (Matthew Henry)
… 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 …
14210 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.1 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:38-8:47. 5. Here is his discourse in answer to their blasphemous reproaches, John 8:48-8:50. 6. Concerning the immortality of believers, John 8:51-8:59. And in all this …
14211 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.16 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 38:13. Christ would not have his ministers to be entangled in secular affairs. Let them rather employ themselves in any lawful studies, and fill up their …
14212 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.29 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Genesis 38:23 ), lest we be shamed. Our care should be more to save our souls than to save our credit. Saul evidenced his hypocrisy when he said, I have sinned, yet …
14213 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.38 (Matthew Henry)
I. A great doctrine laid down, with the application of it.
14214 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.71 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 38:13, 38:15. Upon this part of our Saviour’s discourse the evangelist has a melancholy remark ( John 8:27 ): They understood not that he spoke to them of the …
14215 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.103 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:38 ): I speak that which I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have seen with your father. Here are two fathers spoken of, according to the two families …
14216 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1006.120 (Matthew Henry)
… 13:38. They partake of his nature, bear his image, obey his commands, and follow his example. Idolaters said to a stock, Thou art our father, Jeremiah 2:27 .
14217 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1007.38 (Matthew Henry)
[2.] Their answers to these interrogatories, in which,
14218 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1008.38 (Matthew Henry)
[ b .] That his laying down his life was in order to his resuming it: I lay down my life, that I may receive it again. First, This was the effect of his Father’s love, and …
14219 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1009.34 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:38; we may observe the different tempers of these two sisters, and the temptations and advantages of each. Martha’s natural temper was active and busy; she …
14220 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1009.38 (Matthew Henry)
Secondly, Yet she corrects and comforts herself with the thoughts of the prevailing interest Christ had in heaven; at least, she blames herself for blaming …