36What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
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Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? …
The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
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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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