16And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. …
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)When Christ came into Jerusalem, he did not go up to the court or the palace, though he came in as a King, but into the temple ; for his kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world ; it is in holy things that he rules, in the temple of God that he exercises authority. Now, what did he do there? I. Thence he drove the buyers and sellers. Abuses must first be purged out, and the plants not of God’s…
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