19Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: …
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-30)We have here the discovery of Judas’s plot to betray his Master. Christ knew it from the beginning; but now first he discovered it to his disciples, who did not expect Christ should be betrayed, though he had often told them so, much less did they suspect that one of them should do it. Now here, I. Christ gives them a general intimation of it (John 13:18): I speak not of you all , I cannot expect…
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