56Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
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And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
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.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: …
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. …
And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 54-59)Having given his disciples their lesson in the foregoing verses, here Christ turns to the people , and gives them theirs , Luke 12:54. He said also to the people : he preached ad populum—to the people , as well as ad clerum—to the clergy . In general, he would have them be as wise in the affairs of their souls as they are in their outward affairs. Two things he specifies:— I. Let them learn to dis…
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