37And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
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When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, …
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? …
Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-44)Here we have, I. Christ’s tender sympathy with his afflicted friends, and the share he took to himself in their sorrows, which appeared three ways:— 1. By the inward groans and troubles of his spirit (John 11:33): Jesus saw Mary weeping for the loss of a loving brother, and the Jews that came with her weeping for the loss of a good neighbour and friend; when he saw what a place of weepers , a boch…
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