Matthew 10:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

Matthew 10:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 5:20
Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
John 16:1
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
John 16:29
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
Proverbs 1:20-23
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-42)

All these verses relate to the sufferings of Christ’s ministers in their work, which they are here taught to expect, and prepare for; they are directed also how to bear them, and how to go on with their work in the midst of them. This part of the sermon looks further than to their present mission; for we find not that they met with any great hardships or persecutions while Christ was with them, no…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27. What I tell you in darkness--in the privacy of a teaching for which men are not yet ripe. that speak ye in the light--for when ye go forth all will be ready. and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops--Give free and fearless utterance to all that I have taught you while yet with you. Objection: But this may cost us our life? Answer: It may, but there their power ends: