41But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
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Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-54)Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Matt. 23:1-39); for what he said in public and private was of a piece . He would not say that in a corner which he durst not repeat and stand to in the great congregation; nor would he give those reproofs to any sort of sinners in gen…
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