37But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
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And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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.
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-41)We have here the honour done to our Lord Jesus by the Old-Testament prophets, who foretold and lamented the infidelity of the many that believed not on him. It was indeed a dishonour and grief to Christ that his doctrine met with so little acceptance and so much opposition; but this takes off the wonder and reproach, makes the offence of it to cease, and made it no disappointment to Christ, that h…
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