56For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Commentary
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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