2Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
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For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The first verse of this chapter some join to the foregoing chapter, and make it (not unfitly) the close of that. 1. The ordination sermon which Christ preached to his disciples in the foregoing chapter is here called his commanding them. Note, Christ’s commissions imply commands. Their preaching of the gospel was not only permitted them, but it was enjoined them. It was not a thing respecting whic…
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