27John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. …
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-36)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s removal into the land of Judea (John 3:22), and there he tarried with his disciples. Observe, 1. Our Lord Jesus, after he entered upon his public work, travelled much, and removed often, as the patriarchs in their sojournings. As it was a good part of his humiliation that he had no certain dwelling-place, but was, as Paul, in journeyings often , so it was an in…
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