1After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. …
He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here, I. The reason given why Christ spent more of his time in Galilee than in Judea (John 7:1): because the Jews , the people in Judea and Jerusalem, sought to kill him , for curing the impotent man on the sabbath day, John 5:16. They thought to be the death of him, either by a popular tumult or by a legal prosecution, in consideration of which he kept at a distance in another part of the…
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