36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: …
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: …
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-46)We have here a description of the process of the last judgment in the great day. There are some passages in it that are parabolical; as the separating between the sheep and the goats, and the dialogues between the judge and the persons judged: but there is no thread of similitude carried through the discourse, and therefore it is rather to be called a draught or delineation of the final judgment,…
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