53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
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Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. …
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: …
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 47-53)Satan, finding himself baffled in his attempts to terrify our Lord Jesus, and so to put him out of the possession of his own soul, betakes himself (according to his usual method) to force and arms, and brings a party into the field to seize him, and Satan was in them . Here is, I. The marking of him by Judas. Here a numerous party appears, and Judas at the head of them, for he was guide to them th…
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