37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. …
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: …
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
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…
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