For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
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Gill's Exposition
And behold, a woman in the city,.... Not Mary Magdalene, spoken of in Luk 8:2 under another character; and is a different person, who had not been taken notice of by the evangelist before; nor Mary…
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
neither eating bread nor drinking wine "His meat was locusts and wild honey," Mat 3:4. Being a Nazarite he drank no wine, Luk 1:15; see 2Es 9:24.
He hath a devil They sneered at him for a moody or…
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