And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
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Gill's Exposition
And behold, there are last which shall be first,.... The Gentiles, the most mean and abject, afar from God, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, called last of all; these shall be first, and sit…
Adam Clarke
They shall come - That is, the Gentiles, in every part of the world, shall receive the Gospel of the grace of God, when the Jews shall have rejected it.
We have here,
I. A question put to our Lord Jesus. Who it was that put it we are not told, whether a friend or a foe; for he both gave a great liberty of questioning him and returned answers to the…
Cambridge Bible
they shall come from the east, and from the west There is an obvious reference to Isa 49:12; Isa 14:6. Nothing more furiously excited the envy of the Jews than the free admission of the Gentiles to…
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