19There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
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Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. …
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. …
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-21)We have here an account of the people’s different sentiments concerning Christ, on occasion of the foregoing discourse; there was a division, a schism , among them; they differed in their opinions, which threw them into heats and parties. Such a ferment as this they had been in before ( John 7:43 ; 9:16 ); and where there has once been a division again. Rents are sooner made than made up or mended…
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