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47Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?

John 7:47

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.

  • By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

  • Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

  • Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

  • Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 45-53)

The chief priests and Pharisees are here in a close cabal, contriving how to suppress Christ; though this was the great day of the feast , they attended not the religious services of the day, but left them to the vulgar, to whom it was common for those great ecclesiastics to consign and turn over the business of devotion, while they thought themselves better employed in the affairs of church-polic…

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