55But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: …
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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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