25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)I. Here is, The impudent impious brand which the scribes fastened upon Christ’s casting out devils, that they might evade and invalidate the conviction of it, and have a poor excuse for not yielding to it. These scribes came down from Jerusalem , Mark 3:22. It should seem they came this long journey on purpose to hinder the progress of the doctrine of Christ; such pains did they take to do mischie…
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