26Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. …
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-27)In these verses we have, I. The careful enquiry which the people made after Christ, John 6:23 , 24 . They saw the disciples go to sea; they saw Christ retire to the mountain, probably with an intimation that he desired to be private for some time; but, their hearts being set upon making him a king , they way-laid his return, and the day following , the hot fit of their zeal still continuing, 1. Th…
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