15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)Our Lord Jesus, from his childhood till now, when he was almost thirty years of age, had lain hid in Galilee, as it were, buried alive; but now, after a long and dark night, behold, the Sun of righteousness rises in glory. The fulness of time was come that Christ should enter upon his prophetical office; and he chooses to do it, not at Jerusalem (though it is probable that he went thither at the t…
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