41And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
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They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-42)This passage of story in Matthew and Mark follows immediately upon that of Christ’s transfiguration, and his discourse with his disciples after it; but here it is said to be on the next day, as they were coming down from the hill , which confirms the conjecture that Christ was transfigured in the night , and, it should seem, though they did not make tabernacles as Peter proposed, yet they found so…
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