24Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
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Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it. …
And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? …
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)Never did any good work go on with any hope of success, but it met with opposition; those that are bent to do mischief cannot be reconciled to those who make it their business to do good. Satan, the destroyer of mankind, ever was, and will be, an adversary to those who are the benefactors of mankind; and it would have been strange if the apostles had gone on thus teaching and healing and had had n…
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