60Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
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Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. …
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. …
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 57-62)We have here an account of three several persons that offered themselves to follow Christ, and the answers that Christ gave to each of them. The two former we had an account of in Matt. 19:21. I. Here is one that is extremely forward to follow Christ immediately, but seems to have been too rash, hasty, and inconsiderate, and not to have set down and counted the cost. 1. He makes Christ a very larg…
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