1Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
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Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; …
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Ever since the conversion of Paul, we have heard no more of the agency of the priests in persecuting the saints at Jerusalem; perhaps that wonderful change wrought upon him, and the disappointment it gave to their design upon the Christians at Damascus, had somewhat mollified them, and brought them under the check of Gamaliel’s advice—to let those men alone , and see what would be the issue; but h…
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