24Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
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Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe: …
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-38)We have here another rencounter between Christ and the Jews in the temple, in which it is hard to say which is more strange, the gracious words that came out of his mouth or the spiteful ones that came out of theirs. I. We have here the time when this conference was: It was at the feast of dedication, and it was winter , a feast that was annually observed by consent, in remembrance of the dedicati…
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