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53And every man went unto his own house.

John 7:53

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

  • He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …

  • The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

  • Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

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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