Luke 19:20
And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
For I feared thee,.... Not with a right fear, with a fear of his goodness, who had bestowed such an excellent gift on him; for this would have taught him to have departed from evil, and have put him…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
A napkin - A towel. He means by it that he had not wasted it nor thrown it by carelessly, but had been “very careful” of it; so much so as to be at the pains to tie it up in a towel and put it in a…
Our Lord Jesus is now upon his way to Jerusalem, to his last passover, when he was to suffer and die; now here we are told,
I. How the expectations of his friends were raised upon this occasion: They…
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