21Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
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Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not kill.
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. …
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. …
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-26)Christ having laid down these principles, that Moses and the prophets were still to be their rulers, but that the scribes and Pharisees were to be no longer their rulers, proceeds to expound the law in some particular instances, and to vindicate it from the corrupt glosses which those expositors had put upon it. He adds not any thing new, only limits and restrains some permissions which had been a…
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