12Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
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And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good. …
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: …
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)Christ having proved that the disciples, in eating with unwashen hands, were not to be blamed, as transgressing the traditions and injunctions of the elders, comes here to show that they were not to be blamed, as having done any thing that was in itself evil. In the former part of his discourse he overturned the authority of the law, and in this the reason of it. Observe, I. The solemn introductio…
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