26Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-30)We have here, I. A question put to our Lord Jesus. Who it was that put it we are not told, whether a friend or a foe; for he both gave a great liberty of questioning him and returned answers to the thoughts and intents of the heart. The question was, Are there few that are saved ? Luke 13:23: ei oligoi hoi sozomenoi —“ If the saved be few ? Master, I have heard thou shouldest say so; is it true?”…
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