36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
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And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-38)Here is, I. A conclusion of the foregoing account of Christ’s preaching and miracles (Matt. 9:35); He went about all the cities teaching and healing . This is the same we had before, Matt. 4:23. There it ushers in the more particular record of Christ’s preaching (Matt. 5:1-7:29) and of his cures (Matt. 8:1-9:38), and here it is elegantly repeated in the close of these instances, as the quod erat d…
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