Chapter?3In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly ...
Chapter?16None of Christ?s miracles are recorded in this chapter, but four of his discourses. Here is, I. A conference with the Pharisees, who challen...
Chapter?13Our Saviour having finished his public discourses, in which he endured the contradiction of sinners,?? now applies himself to a private conv...
Chapter?4It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel?s land (Isa.?8:8 ), not only the place of his birth, ...
Chapter?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
Chapter?26We left Paul at the bar, and Festus, and Agrippa, and Bernice, and all the great men of the city of Caesarea, upon the bench, or about it, w...
Chapter?23In the foregoing chapter, we had our Saviour?s discourses with the scribes and Pharisees; here we have his discourse concerning them, or rat...
Chapter?24Christ?s preaching was mostly practical; but, in this chapter, we have a prophetical discourse, a prediction of things to come; such however...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Chapter?8In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s evading the snare which the Jews laid for him, in bringing to him a woman taken in adultery (v.?1-11). I...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...