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12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-16)Two very wicked things David here lays to the charge of his enemies, to make good his appeal to God against them—perjury and ingratitude. I. Perjury, Ps. 35:11. When Saul would have David attainted of treason, in order to his being outlawed, perhaps he did it with the formalities of a legal prosecution, produced witnesses who swore some treasonable words or overt acts against him, and he being not…
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