12But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: …
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. …
And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. …
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. …
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-19)See here, I. With what admiration some spoke of the external pomp and magnificence of the temple, and they were some of Christ’s own disciples too; and they took notice of it to him how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts , Luke 21:5. The outside was built up with goodly stones, and within it was beautified and enriched with the presents that were offered up for that purpose, and were hung…
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