43Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
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O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. …
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: …
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. …
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-49)When and where this passage of story happened does not appear; this evangelist does not observe order of time in his narrative so much as the other evangelists do; but it comes in here, upon occasion of Christ’s being reproached as a friend to publicans and sinners , to show that it was only for their good, and to bring them to repentance, that he conversed with them; and that those whom he admitt…
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