7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. …
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? …
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)We have here instances, I. Of the kindness of Christ’s friends , and the provision made of respect and honour for him. Some friends he had, even in and about Jerusalem, that loved him, and never thought they could do enough for him, among whom, though Israel be not gathered, he is, and will be, glorious. 1. Here was one friend , that was so kind as to invite him to sup with him ; and he was so kin…
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