14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. …
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; …
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-27)Our Lord Jesus is now upon his way to Jerusalem, to his last passover, when he was to suffer and die; now here we are told, I. How the expectations of his friends were raised upon this occasion: They thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear , Luke 19:11. The Pharisees expected it about this time (Luke 17:20), and, it seems, so did Christ’s own disciples; but they both had a mistake…
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