5He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
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This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: …
The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, …
Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The apostle is here dealing with those who, having embraced the faith of Christ, still continued to seek for justification by the works of the law; that is, who depended upon their own obedience to the moral precepts as their righteousness before God, and, wherein that was defective, had recourse to the legal sacrifices and purifications to make it up. These he first sharply reproves, and then end…
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