40Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
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And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-44)In these verses we have, I. Christ’s discourse, with the explication of it, John 7:37-39. It is probable that these are only short hints of what he enlarged upon, but they have in them the substance of the whole gospel; here is a gospel invitation to come to Christ , and a gospel promise of comfort and happiness in him. Now observe, 1. When he gave this invitation: On the last day of the feast of…
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