6And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. …
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
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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