21And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
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And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-31)As the parable of the prodigal son set before us the grace of the gospel, which is encouraging to us all, so this sets before us the wrath to come , and is designed for our awakening; and very fast asleep those are in sin that will not be awakened by it. The Pharisees made a jest of Christ’s sermon against worldliness; now this parable was intended to make those mockers serious. The tendency of th…
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