9And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
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Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? …
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Many, no doubt, were converted to the faith of Christ of whom no account is kept in the gospels; but the conversion of some, whose case had something in it extraordinary, is recorded, as this of Zaccheus. Christ passed through Jericho, Luke 19:1. This city was build under a curse, yet Christ honoured it with his presence, for the gospel takes away the curse . Though it ought not to have been built…
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