24And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
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If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. …
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. …
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. …
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-29)Here is, I. The wild notions that the people had concerning our Lord Jesus, Mark 6:15. His own countrymen could believe nothing great concerning him, because they knew his poor kindred; but others that were not under the power of that prejudice against him, were yet willing to believe any thing rather than the truth—that he was the Son of God, and the true Messias: they said, He is Elias, whom the…
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