2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
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These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. …
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. …
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. …
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Christ dealt faithfully with his disciples when he sent them forth on his errands, for he told them the worst of it, that they might sit down and count the cost. He had told them in the chapter before to expect the world’s hatred; now here in these verses, I. He gives them a reason why he alarmed them thus with the expectation of trouble: These things have I spoken unto you, that you should not be…
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