23Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
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And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-26)Here begins a practical discourse of Christ, which is continued to the end of the chapter, most of which is found in the sermon upon the mount , Matt. 5:1-7:29. Some think that this was preached at some other time and place, and there are other instances of Christ’s preaching the same things, or to the same purport, at different times; but it is probable that this is only the evangelist’s abridgme…
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