28And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
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Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
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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