58And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
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And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. …
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; …
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. …
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 53-58)We have here Christ in his own country. He went about doing good, yet left not any place till he had finished his testimony there at that time. His own countrymen had rejected him once, yet he came to them again. Note, Christ does not take refusers at their first word, but repeats his offers to those who have often repulsed them. In this, as in other things, Christ was like his brethren; he had a…
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