9Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
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Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? …
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: …
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! …
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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