14And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
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And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)One great design of Christ’s coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God’s making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it.…
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