13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
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Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. …
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. …
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-15)We have here the high encomium which our Lord Jesus gave of John the Baptist; not only to revive his honour, but to revive his work. Some of Christ’s disciples might perhaps take occasion from the question John sent, to reflect upon him, as weak and wavering, and inconsistent with himself, to prevent which Christ gives him this character. Note, It is our duty to consult the reputation of our breth…
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