10But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. …
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
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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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