49But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
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Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? …
And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. …
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. …
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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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