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14901 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1018.69 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:38, 3:19. Christ, being risen for our justification, sends his gospel heralds to proclaim the jubilee begun, the act of indemnity now passed; and by this rule …
14902 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1019.38 (Matthew Henry)
II. Christ, having thus appointed Peter his doing work, next appoints him his suffering work. Having confirmed to him the honour of an apostle, he now tells him of further preferment designed him—the honour of a martyr. Observe,
14903 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.38 (Matthew Henry)
The sin of Judas was not only his shame and ruin, but it made a vacancy in the college of the apostles. They were ordained twelve, with an eye to the twelve tribes …
14904 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1021.38 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:17 ), to pass and repass through them, as his occasion led him, for man’s redemption. (4.) That all his sorrows and sufferings should end in perfect and perpetual …
14905 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1021.50 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:38, 2:39. Sinners convinced must be encouraged; and that which is broken must be bound up ( Ezekiel 34:16 ); they must be told that though their case is sad it is not …
14906 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1021.53 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:38, 2:39 ), and that which, one would think, included all, and yet he had more to say. When we have heard those words which have done our souls good, we cannot but wish …
14907 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1023.38 (Matthew Henry)
(3.) That God would still give them power to work miracles for the confirmation of the doctrine they preached, which, by the cure of the lame man, they found to contribute …
14908 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.32 (Matthew Henry)
… Isaiah 38:22. Now in this charge given them, observe, (1.) Where they must preach: Speak in the temple. One would think, though they might not quit their work, yet it …
14909 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.38 (Matthew Henry)
I. The seizing of the apostles a second time. We may think, if God designed this, “Why were they rescued from their first imprisonment?” But this was designed to …
14910 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1024.49 (Matthew Henry)
… 5:38 ): Now I say unto you, ta nyn — for the present, as the matter now stands, my advice is, “ Refrain from these men; neither punish them for what they have done nor restrain …
14911 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.26 (Matthew Henry)
… 23:38, 23:39 .
14912 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.33 (Matthew Henry)
… 7:38. And herein also he was a type of Christ, who yet so far exceeds him that it is no blasphemy to say, “He has authority to change the customs that Moses delivered …
14913 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.38 (Matthew Henry)
2. For sacrificing to other gods after they came to Canaan ( Acts 7:43 ): You took up the tabernacle of Moloch. Moloch was the idol of the children of Ammon, to which …
14914 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.1 (Matthew Henry)
… -8:38 ), and the leaves him, Acts 8:39, 8:40. Thus in different ways and methods the gospel was dispersed among the nations, and, one way or other, “Have they not all heard …
14915 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.38 (Matthew Henry)
[3.] Simon’s request to them to pray for him, Acts 8:24. He was startled and put into confusion by that which Peter said, finding that resented thus which he thought …
14916 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.52 (Matthew Henry)
… -8:38. It is probable that the eunuch had heard at Jerusalem of the doctrine of Christ, so that it was not altogether new to him. But, if he had, what could that do towards …
14917 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.38 (Matthew Henry)
1. Ananias pleads that this Saul was a notorious persecutor of the disciples of Christ, Acts 9:13, 9:14. (1.) He had been so at Jerusalem: “ Lord, I have heard by many of …
14918 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1028.62 (Matthew Henry)
… 9:38. Lydda, where Peter now was, was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples at Joppa had heard that Peter was there, and that he had raised Eneas from a bed of languishing …
14919 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.34 (Matthew Henry)
… 10:38. His works were wrought in God. God not only sent him, but was present with him all along, owned him, stood by him, and carried him on in all his services and sufferings …
14920 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.38 (Matthew Henry)
2. What they must believe concerning him. (1.) That we are all accountable to Christ as our Judge; this the apostles were commanded to testify to the world, that …