52They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
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Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. …
The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; …
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. …
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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