Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 13, verses 25-32
14 Paul preacheth at Antioch that Jesus is ChristMark, Chapter 6, verses 14-30
14 Diverse opinions of Christ, 18 John Baptist is beheaded, 19 and buried, 30 The apostles return from preaching6
6:15 A prophet, as one of the prophets - Not inferior to one of the ancient prophets.
6:16 But Herod hearing thereof - Of their various judgments concerning him, still said, It is John.
6:20 And preserved him - Against all the malice and contrivances of Herodias. And when he heard him - Probably sending for him, at times, during his imprisonment, which continued a year and a half.He heard him gladly - Delusive joy! While Herodias lay in his bosom.
6:21 A convenient day - Convenient for her purpose. His lords, captains, and principal men of Galilee - The great men of the court, the army, and the province.
6:23 To the half of my kingdom - A proverbial expression.
6:26 Yet for his oath's sake, and for the sake of his guests - Herod's honour was like the conscience of the chief priests, Mat 27:6. To shed innocent blood wounded neither onenor the other.
6:30 Luk 9:10.
2 Corinthians, Chapter 9, verses 12-15
10 which shall return a great increase to them, 13 and occasion a great sacrifice of thanksgivings unto God2 Corinthians, Chapter 10, verses 1-7
1 Against the false apostles, who disgraced the weakness of his person and bodily presence, he setteth out the spiritual might and authority, with which he is armed against all adversary powers, 7 assuring them that at his coming he will be found as mighty in word, as he is now in writing being absent9
9:13 Your avowed subjection - Openly testified by your actions. To all men - Who stand in need of it.
9:15 His unspeakable gift - His outward and inward blessings, the number and excellence of which cannot he uttered.
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10:1 Now I Paul myself - - A strongly emphatical expression.Who when present am base among you - So, probably, some of the false teachers affirmed. Copying after the meekness and gentleness of Christ, entreat - Though I might command you.
10:2 Do not constrain me when present to be bold - To exert my apostolical authority. Who think of us as walking after the flesh - As acting in a cowardly or crafty manner.
10:3 Though we walk in the flesh - In mortal bodies, and, consequently, are not free from human weakness. Yet we do not war - Against the world and the devil. After the flesh - By any carnal or worldly methods. Though the apostle here, and in several other parts of this epistle, speaks in the plural number, for the sake of modesty and decency, yet he principally means himself. On him were these reflections thrown, and it is his own authority which he is vindicating.
10:4 For the weapons of our warfare - Those we use in this war. Are not carnal - But spiritual, and therefore mighty to the throwing down of strong holds - Of all the difficulties which men or devils can raise in our way. Though faith and prayer belong also to the Christian armour, Eph 6:15, etc , yet the word of God seems to be here chiefly intended.
10:5 Destroying all vain reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself - As a wall or rampart. Against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought - Or, rather, faculty of the mind. Into captivity to the obedience of Christ - Those evil reasonings are destroyed. The mind itself, beingovercome and taken captive, lays down all authority of its own, and entirely gives itself up to perform, for the time to come, to Christ its conqueror the obedience of faith.
10:6 Being in readiness to avenge all disobedience - Not only by spiritual censure, but miraculous punishments. When your obedience is fulfilled - When the sound part of you have given proof of your obedience, so that I am in no danger of punishing the innocent with the guilty.
10:7 Do ye look at the outward appearance of things - Does any of you judge of a minister of Christ by his person, or any outward circumstance? Let him again think this of himself - Let him learn it from his own reflection, before I convince him by a severer method.
Mark, Chapter 3, verses 20-27
13 chooseth his twelve apostles, 22 convinceth the blasphemy of casting out devils by Beelzebub3
3:20 To eat bread - That is, to take any subsistence.
3:21 His relations - His mother and his brethren, Mar 3:31. But it was some time before they could come near him.
3:22 The scribes and Pharisees, Mat 12:22;who had come down from Jerusalem - Purposely on the devil's errand.And not without success. For the common people now began to drink in the poison, from these learned, good, honourable men!He hath Beelzebub - at command, is in league with him: And by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils - How easily may a man of learning elude the strongest proof of a work of God! How readily can he account for every incident without ever taking God into the question. Mat 12:24; Luk 11:15.
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13:25 His course - His work was quickly finished, and might therefore well be termed a course or race. Luk 3:16.
13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers - He here anticipates a strong objection, "Why did not they at Jerusalem, and especially their rulers, believe?" They know not him, because they understood not those very prophets whom they read or heard continually. Their very condemning him, innocent as he was, proves that they understood not the prophecies concerning him.
13:29 They fulfilled all things that were written of him - So far could they go, but no farther.
13:31 He was seen many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem - This last journey both presupposes all the rest, and was the most important of all.