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Gill's Exposition
For I say unto you,.... And it may be depended on as truth, and what will be found matter of fact:
that unto every one that hath, shall be given; greater and larger gifts, fitting him for greater…
Barnes' Notes
And they said unto him - Those standing around him said. He hath ... - This was probably an observation made by some of the bystanders, as if surprised at such a decision. “He has already ten pounds.…
Adam Clarke
And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds - This whole verse is omitted by the Codex Bezae, a few others, and some copies of the Itala. It is probably an observation that some person made while…
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…
Cambridge Bible
they said unto him Perhaps the officials round the king; but as this verse is purely parenthetical, it may not impossibly be an interpellation of the crowd, expressive of their vivid interest in the…