30Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
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And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-36)Honour is here done to Christ by his Father in a voice from heaven, occasioned by the following part of his discourse, and which gave occasion to a further conference with the people. In these verses we have, I. Christ’s address to his Father, upon occasion of the trouble which seized his spirit at this time: Now is my soul troubled , John 12:27. A strange word to come from Christ’s mouth, and at…
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