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5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Matthew 11:5

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Matthew Henry

(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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