27Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
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But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? …
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. …
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. …
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)Here are some remarkable circumstances of Christ’s dying more fully related than before, which those will take special notice of who covet to know Christ and him crucified. I. The title set up over his head. Observe, 1. The inscription itself which Pilate wrote, and ordered to be fixed to the top of the cross, declaring the cause for which he was crucified, John 19:19. Matthew called it, aitia — t…
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