22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
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Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-25)Here Christ discourses concerning hatred , which is the character and genius of the devil’s kingdom, as love is of the kingdom of Christ. Observe here, I. Who they are in whom this hatred is found—the world, the children of this world, as distinguished from the children of God; those who are in the interests of the god of this world, whose image they bear, and whose power they are subject to; all…
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