25And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
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But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. …
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? …
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? …
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-37)We have here Christ’s discourse with a lawyer about some points of conscience, which we are all concerned to be rightly informed in and are so here from Christ though the questions were proposed with no good intention. I. We are concerned to know what that good is which we should do in this life, in order to our attaining eternal life . A question to this purport was proposed to our Saviour by a c…
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