39Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
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How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. …
But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
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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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