30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-35)All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Matt. 11:2-19. I. We have here the message John Baptist sent to Christ, and the return he made to it. Observe, 1. The great thing we are to enquire concerning Christ is whether he be he that should come to redeem and save sinners, or whether we are to l…
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