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Gill's Exposition
But I say unto you,.... Who Christ knew would be ready to object, as above, and therefore prevents them, by saying,
that in this place is one greater than the temple; meaning himself, who was the…
One greater than the temple - Here the Saviour refers to himself, and to his own dignity and power. “I have power over the laws; I can grant to my disciples a dispensation from those laws. An act…
The Jewish teachers had corrupted many of the commandments, by interpreting them more loosely than they were intended; a mistake which Christ discovered and rectified (ch. 5) in his sermon on the…
Mat 12:1-13. The Observance of the Sabbath
1. The disciples pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath. 2. A man with a withered hand cured on the Sabbath.
St Mar 2:23-28; Mar 3:1-5; St Luk 6:1-11.
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