This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
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Gill's Exposition
But the Pharisees and lawyers,.... Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read; for the Scribes and lawyers were the same sort of persons. The Ethiopic version calls them, "the Scribes of the…
See this passage explained in Mat. 11:2-19. Luk 7:29 The people - The common people. That heard him - That heard “John.” The publicans - The tax-gatherers, the worst kind of people, who had, however,…
All this discourse concerning John Baptist, occasioned by his sending to ask whether he was the Messiah or no, we had, much as it is here related, Mt. 11:2-19.
I. We have here the message John Baptist…
Cambridge Bible
Behold, I send my messenger Compare Luk 1:76 ; Mar 1:2. In the parallel passage of St Matthew our Lord adds that the Baptist is the promised Elias, Mat 11:11; Mat 11:14; Mat 17:10-13; Luk 1:17 (Mal…
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