21In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
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But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. …
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. …
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: …
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, …
Commentary
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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