16And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
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Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. …
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. …
And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)We have here an account of the cure of ten lepers, which we had not in any other of the evangelists. The leprosy was a disease which the Jews supposed to be inflicted for the punishment of some particular sin, and to be, more than other diseases, a mark of God’s displeasure; and therefore Christ, who came to take away sin, and turn away wrath, took particular care to cleanse the lepers that fell i…
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