Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
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Gill's Exposition
I tell you, in that night,.... Of affliction and calamity, that shall be upon the Jewish nation, and which is before called that day, Luk 17:31 and therefore is not to be understood literally of the…
Adam Clarke
Whosoever shall seek to save his life - These or similar words were spoken on another occasion. See on Mat 10:39 (note); Mat 16:25, Mat 16:26 (note).
We have here a discourse of Christ's concerning the kingdom of God, that is, the kingdom of the Messiah, which was now shortly to be set up, and of which there was great expectation.
I. Here is the…
Cambridge Bible
Whosoever shall seek to save his life See the same utterance, with slight verbal alterations, in Luk 9:24; Joh 12:25. St Paul's high confidence as to the issue of his own apparently ruined and…
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