29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
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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