17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: …
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)It has generally been taken for granted by commentators that Christ’s washing his disciples’ feet, and the discourse that followed it, were the same night in which he was betrayed, and at the same sitting wherein he ate the passover and instituted the Lord’s supper; but whether before the solemnity began, or after it was all over, or between the eating of the passover and the institution of the Lo…
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