17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; …
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. …
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-36)Here is, I. Christ’s public preaching in the temple (John 7:14): He went up into the temple, and taught , according to his custom when he was at Jerusalem. His business was to preach the gospel of the kingdom, and he did it in every place of concourse. His sermon is not recorded, because, probably, it was to the same purport with the sermons he had preached in Galilee, which were recorded by the o…
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