Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

set him more against her; but our earnest prayer is pleasing to our God. Even to the end there will still be ground for the same ...

The Spirit of Christ, in the Old Testament prophets, testified beforehand his sufferings, and the glory that should follow, 1Pe ...

house, and where Christ comes he brings salvation with him. He came into this lost world to seek and to save it. His design was ...

Chapter Outline The priests and scribes question Christ's (1–8) authority. The parable of the vineyard and (9–19) husbandmen. Of ...

spirits by this world of sense. There are more worlds than one; a present visible world, and a future unseen world; and let ever ...

common in gospel times, yet God makes use of temporal judgments also. Christ tells them what hard things they should suffer for ...

conclude each day attending to Christ's word, obeying his precepts, and following his example, that whenever he comes we may be ...

breaking of Christ's body as a sacrifice for us, is therein brought to our remembrance by the breaking of bread. Nothing can be ...

an illustrious example of his own rule of doing good to those that hate us, as afterwards he did of praying for those that despi ...

The death of Christ. (44–49) The burial of Christ. (50–56) Verses 1–5 Pilate well understood the difference between armed forces ...

Verses 32–43 As soon as Christ was fastened to the cross, he prayed for those who crucified him. The great thing he died to purc ...

that they may not hinder us from our sabbath work; and our holy affections so stirred up, that they may carry us on in it. In wh ...

sorrowful, even when they have reason to rejoice; but through the weakness of their faith, they cannot take the comfort offered ...

good men need to have their understandings opened. But that we may have right thoughts of Christ, there needs no more than to be ...

John The apostle and evangelist, John, seems to have been the youngest of the twelve. He was especially favoured with our Lord's ...

pray without ceasing, that our eyes may be opened to behold this Light, that we may walk in it; and thus be made wise unto salva ...

as they expected, who would rescue them from the Romans. He gave such an account of himself, as might excite and awaken them to ...

from the ways of religion by the unreasonable prejudices they conceive. The best way to remove false notions of religion, is to ...

does not in the least do away his own caution, which is, that our hearts be not at any time overcharged with surfeiting and drun ...

at once to them. Our Saviour spoke of the necessity and nature of regeneration or the new birth, and at once directed Nicodemus ...