24For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
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Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: …
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
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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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