35And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
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He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
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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