7And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
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But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. …
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Many are the troubles of the righteous, but some way or other the Lord delivereth them out of them all . Paul owned he had experienced the truth of this in the persecutions he had undergone among the Gentiles (see 2 Tim. 3:11): Out of them all the Lord delivered me . And now he finds that he who has delivered does and will deliver. He that delivered him in the foregoing chapter from the tumult of…
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