17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
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But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins,(then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)Here is, I. The righteous sentence which God gave against Israel for their murmuring and unbelief, which, though afterwards mitigated, showed what was the desert of their sin and the demand of injured justice, and what would have been done if Moses had not interposed. When the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle we may suppose that Moses took it for a call to him immediately to come and a…
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