17Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
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Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. …
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-32)The matter being determined, that Christ will go to Judea, and his disciples with him, they address themselves to their journey; in this journey some circumstances happened which the other evangelists record, as the healing of the blind man at Jericho, and the conversion of Zaccheus. We must not reckon ourselves out of our way, while we are in the way of doing good; nor be so intent upon one good…
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