1But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. …
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: …
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The chapter begins with a melancholy but , which puts a stop to the pleasant and agreeable prospect of things which we had in the foregoing chapters; as every man, so every church, in its best state has its but . 1. The disciples were very holy, and heavenly, and seemed to be all exceedingly good; but there were hypocrites among them, whose hearts were not right in the sight of God , who, when the…
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