18And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. …
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? …
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-18)In these verses we have, I. A miraculous cure wrought by Paul at Lystra upon a cripple that had been lame from his birth, such a one as was miraculously cured by Peter and John, Acts 3:2. That introduced the gospel among the Jews, this among the Gentiles; both that and this were designed to represent the impotency of all the children of men in spiritual things: they are lame from their birth, till…
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