11But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
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Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: …
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: …
But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. …
And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-13)Our Lord Jesus, in reply to their question, sets himself, not so much to satisfy their curiosity as to direct their consciences; leaves them still in the dark concerning the times and seasons , which the father has kept in his own power , and which it was not for them to know ; but gives them the cautions which were needful, with reference to the events that should now shortly come to pass. I. The…
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