31The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. …
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
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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