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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. Christ’s cures do not take many minutes. When he comes to save, he saves men at once. He says, “Light be,” and there is light.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. You will find that it is often the Saviour’s way thus to give the credit of his own work, to the patient’s faith. “Thy faith,” saith he, “hath made thee whole.” Whereas, you and I, if we do a good thing, are very anxious that nobody else should take the credit of it. We are very...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way. Christ’s enemies could not injure him then, partly because the people heard him gladly, and were ready to protect him, but still more because the appointed time for his suffering and death had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his word. And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: They meant “to catch him in his words,” if they could, so they baited...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give? They knew very well that, if Christ said, “Do not give tribute to Caesar,” the Romans would have taken him up, and imprisoned him for preaching sedition, but, on the other hand, if he said, “Pay tribute to Caesar,” the Jews would have said that he was their enemy,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar’s. And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? They could not answer that riddle, but we can. We know that Jesus is both David’s son and David’s Lord; a man like ourselves, of the great human race, yet “very God of very God,”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the common people heard him gladly. And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, — Doubly poor, because she was not only a widow, but in poverty: “a certain poor widow,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance; — Christ measures what we really give by what we have left, — by the proportion...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living. So she gave more than any or all the others did.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, A well-known person. There were plenty of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. It does not want any “it,” “poured on his head.” The liquid nard flowed over his locks, and, as it was with Aaron, it went, doubtless, down his beard to the utmost skirts of his garments.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? Matthew says that they were disciples. Shame upon them. The ointment was put to its proper use. It was more wasted when it was in the box than when it was out of it, for it was doing nothing inside the alabaster box. But when it came out,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. Or “in me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have the poor with you always, If you help them one day, they are poor, and they want helping the next. Or if you help them and leave them, leaving them because they go home to God, there are other poor people sure to come, for they will never cease out of the land. “Ye have the poor with you always.” Mar_14:7. And whensoever ye will ye may...