6But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
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And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. …
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)The foregoing chapter began with Christ’s entering into the synagogue (Mark 4:1); this chapter begins with Christ’s teaching again by the sea side . Thus he changed his method, that if possible all might be reached and wrought upon. To gratify the nice and more genteel sort of people that had seats, chief seats, in the synagogue , and did not care for hearing a sermon any where else, he did not pr…
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