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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. “They will misrepresent you, slander you, and speak evil of you; but if your good name be covered up now, it shall be revealed one of these days, perhaps in this life; but if not in this life, certainly at the day of judgment, when the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What I tell you in darkness,.... Hence Christ proceeds to encourage his disciples to an open, plain, and faithful ministration of the Gospel, not fearing the faces and frowns of men. For with respect to the Gospel, his meaning is, that what was hid and covered should not remain so, but should be revealed, and made known, and they were the persons...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. There must first he that quiet lonely hearing,-that calm still sitting at the Master’s feet to learn the lesson; and then afterwards must come the brave telling of it out,-speaking out though kings should hear, and never being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. There is a secret learning, but there must be a public teaching. Christ takes us aside to reveal himself, that afterwards we may boldly go forth to others, and tell them what we have learned in private. Oh! child of God, if you have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. This is what we are to preach, what Christ tells us, and this is how we are to get the matter of our discourses, be alone with Christ, let him talk to us in the darkness, in the quietude of the closet where we commune with him in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And fear not them which kill the body,.... This is a "periphrasis" of bloody persecutors, who, not content to revile, scourge, and imprison, put the faithful ministers of Christ to death, in the most cruel and torturing manner; and yet are not so to be feared and dreaded by them, as to discourage and divert them from the performance of their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Oh! fearful destruction! This is what we may well fear — both body and soul, to undergo everlasting ruin, broken in pieces and destroyed as to all excellency, and happiness, and peace,. This we may fear.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. A philosopher — Anaxarchus, I think it was, — was wont to say when a certain tyrant had threatened to kill him, “You cannot kill me; you may crush this body, but you cannot touch Anaxarchus.” So fear...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?.... A farthing, with the Jews, was a very small coin; according to them it contained four grains of silver (b); was the ninety sixth part of a "sela", or shilling (c); and sometimes they make it to be of the same value with an Italian farthing: for they say (d), it is of the value of eight "prutahs": and a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. He over-rules all things, the least as well as the greatest. We see his hand in the tempest, and we look at the black wing of the storm and see that God rides it. But the wing of the tiny sparrows, so insignificant in value, is equally...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So, then, God takes more care of us than we take of ourselves. You never heard of a man who numbered the hairs of his head. Men number their sheep and their cattle, but the Christian is so...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. A proverbial expression, showing the perfect knowledge God has, and the exquisite care he takes, in providence, of all his creatures, particularly men, and especially his dear children and faithful ministers; as not a sparrow, so not a single hair of a man's head falls to the ground without the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Minute is the providence of God, taking care of you, even as to that part of your person which is not vital, and without which you could still live on. “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” The tiniest and most insignificant benefits are all ordered by ,his eternal purpose.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Fear ye not therefore,.... Neither be afraid of men, nor distrust the providence of God; for if that reaches to the meanest of creatures, sparrows, and to that which is of the least account with men, the single hair of a man's head; much more must it regard the lives of men, and still more such useful lives as those of the disciples were, who were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows, Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, And you see from the connection, that here the denying means not confessing. “Whosoever shall deny me before men.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. What a glorious promise is this! “I will confess him to have been bought with my blood, I will confess him to have been my faithful follower and friend I will confess him to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men,.... The confession of Christ here, more especially designed, does not so much intend, though it may include, that which is less public, and is necessary to be made by every believer in Christ: for it is not enough to believe in him, with the heart, but confession of him must also be made with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. You own Christ here, and Christ will own you there. Dare to bear reproach for him, and you shall be glorified together with him by-and-by,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But whosoever shall deny me before men,.... Deny that he is a disciple of Christ, and that Christ is his Lord and master, act contrary to him, deliver things repugnant to his mind and will; which for a disciple to do to his master was a very heinous crime with the Jews: "if (say they (n)) Rabbi Jochanan, יכפור, "deny" Rabbi Eleazar, his disciple,...