7And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
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And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)This passage of story fell, in order of time, before the two miracles we had in the close of the foregoing chapter, and is the same with that which was more briefly related by Matthew and Mark, of Christ’s calling Peter and Andrew to be fishers of men , Matt. 4:18 ; Mark 1:16 . They had not related this miraculous draught of fishes at that time, having only in view the calling of his disciples; bu…
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