23Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
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The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-41)Perga in Pamphylia was a noted place, especially for a temple there erected to the goddess Diana, yet nothing at all is related of what Paul and Barnabas did there, only that thither they came (Acts 13:13), and thence they departed , Acts 13:14. But the history of the apostles’ travels, as that of Christ’s, passes by many things worthy to have been recorded, because, if all had been written, the w…
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