19Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)Christ sent forth the seventy disciples as he was going up to Jerusalem to the feast of tabernacles , when he went up, not openly , but as it were in secret (John 7:10), having sent abroad so great a part of his ordinary retinue; and Dr. Lightfoot thinks it was before his return from that feast, and while he was yet at Jerusalem, or Bethany, which was hard by (for there he was, Luke 10:38), that t…
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