For my love they are my adversaries
For the love that Christ showed to the Jews; to their bodies, in
going about and healing all manner of diseases among them; to
their souls, in preaching, the Gospel to them in each of their
cities; and for the love he showed to mankind in coming into the
world to save them, which should have commanded love again; but
instead of this they became his implacable adversaries: they
acted the part of Satan; they were as so many Satans to him, as
the word signifies.
But I give myself unto prayer;
or "I am a man of prayer" F25; as Aben Ezra and Kimchi
supply it; so he was in the days of his flesh, ( Hebrews 5:7 ) , he was
constant at it, and fervent in it; sometimes a whole night
together at it: his usual method was, when at Jerusalem, to teach
in the temple in the daytime, and at night to go to the mount of
Olives, and there abide and pray, ( Luke 6:12 ) ( 21:37 ) ( 22:44 ) . This was the
armour he alone made use of against his enemies, when they fought
against him, and acted the part of an adversary to him; he betook
himself to nothing else but prayer; he did not return railing for
railing, but committed himself in prayer to God, who judgeth
righteously, ( 1 Peter 2:23
) , yea, he prayed for those his adversaries: and so Aben Ezra
and Kimchi interpret it, that he was a man of prayer for them,
and prayed for them; as it is certain Christ did, when he was
encompassed by his enemies, and they were venting all their spite
and malice against him, ( Luke 23:34 ) .