31He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
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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