3And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; …
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Behold the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world , the sin of the church; for therefore was the Son of God manifested, to take away our sin , 1 John 3:5. I. He takes away the guilt of sin by the blood of his cross (Zech. 13:1): In that day , in the gospel-day, there shall be a fountain opened , that is, provision made for the cleansing of all those from the pollutions of sin who truly repen…
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