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The name is Jewish.
And he said unto them, Let us go--or, according to another reading, "Let us go elsewhere." into the next towns--rather, "unto the neighboring village-towns"; meaning those places intermediate...
Because, &c.--resumptive of Eze 28:2.
almost--to be joined with "all things," namely almost all things under the old dispensation. The exceptions to all things being purified by blood are, Ex 19:10; Le 15:5, &c.; 16:26, 28; 22:6; Nu...
O earth! earth! earth!--Jeconiah was not actually without offspring (compare Jer 22:28, "his seed"; 1Ch 3:17, 18; Mt 1:12), but he was to be "written childless," as a warning to posterity, that is,...
While the scribes and Pharisees despised and blasphemed the discourses of our Lord Jesus, this good woman admired them, and the wisdom and power with which he spake. Christ led the woman to a...
And some began to spit on him--or, as in Mt 26:67, "to spit in [into] His face." Luke (Lu 22:63) says in addition, "And the men that held Jesus mocked him"--or cast their jeers at Him. (Also see on...
Ye have heard the blasphemy--(See Joh 10:33). In Luke (Lu 22:71), "For we ourselves have heard of His own mouth"--an affectation of religious horror. (Also see on Joh 18:28.) what think ye?--"Say...
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights--Luke says "When they were quite ended" (Lu 4:2). he was afterward an hungered--evidently implying that the sensation of hunger was unfelt during...
the mercy promised...his holy covenant ...
(See on Mt 13:16, 17).
(See on Mt 6:9-13).
(See on Mt 7:7-11.)
(See on Mt 12:39-42.)
said...Woman...and laid--both at once.
sycamore--the Egyptian fig, with leaves like the mulberry.
these things--particularly the clearing of the temple.
(See on Mt 26:1-5.)
cock...crow--"twice" (Mr 14:30).
Jesus...stood--(See on Joh 20:19).
behoved Christ--(See on Lu 24:26).
Job 28:12 repeated with great force.
scornful--(See on Isa 28:9).
manifold more in this present time--in Matthew (Mt 19:29) "an hundredfold," to which Mark (Mr 10:30) gives this most interesting addition, "Now in this present time, houses, and brethren, and...
Compare Ac 9:27, 28, wherein Luke, as an historian, describes more generally what Paul, the subject of the history, himself details more particularly. The history speaks of "apostles"; and Paul's...
20:1). The Resurrection Announced to the Women (Mt 28:1-8).
for a draught--munificent recompense for the use of his boat.
(See on Mt 10:2-4.)
(See on Mt 18:1-5).