54And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
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And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. …
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: …
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, …
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them;(now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 51-56)This passage of story we have not in any other of the evangelists, and it seems to come in here for the sake of its affinity with that next before, for in this also Christ rebuked his disciples, because they envied for his sake. There, under colour of zeal for Christ, they were for silencing and restraining separatists: here, under the same colour, they were for putting infidels to death; and, as…
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