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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then shall ye begin to say,.... Or ye shall say; in favour of themselves, and in order to be admitted within, the following pleas will be made by them: we have eaten and drank in thy presence: which may be understood both literally of many, who were miraculously led by Christ, or at whose tables he had ate and drank, and they with him; as did not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he shall say, c] The Persic version adds, "be gone from my sight, and be far from my door" expressing indignation at them, an abhorrence of them, as not being able to bear them in his sight, or near unto him: I tell you, I know you not whence you are; this is repeated, and with a strong asseveration, to denote the certainty of the truth...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. They shall be judged by their works. If they were workers of iniquity, it proved that they were unrenewed and unsaved. Christ will not endure their company, but will say to them, “Depart from me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. Driven away, yet they could see the saintly ones there, and see their own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. Ejected, violently driven away, as those who are abhorrent in God’s sight...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,.... [See comments on Matthew 8:12]. This will be upon hearing the above sentence and character, "depart from me", c. and will be increased, when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: whose offspring they were, and to whom they stood related according to the flesh and of descent, from whom they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. You who thought that you had a share in the kingdom of God, and were, by birth, the natural heirs of it: “You yourselves thrust out.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they shall come,.... From all parts the world, from every nation under the heavens; meaning the Gentiles, and which will be a greater aggravation of the punishment of the Jews, and cause still more rage and madness: these shall come from the east and from the west; from the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same, Isaiah 45:6 and from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. The least likely to be saved shall be saved; the blackest sinners, the vilest outcasts, the grossest unbelievers, shall be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. Rank outsiders, far off heathen, outrageous sinners, harlots; “they shall come,” and repent, and “sit down in the kingdom of God,” and this shall cut to the quick those who were hearers of the Word, but who...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down is the kingdom of God. And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And behold, there are last which shall be first,.... The Gentiles, the most mean and abject, afar from God, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, called last of all; these shall be first, and sit down among patriarchs and prophets, men of the first rank here on earth, in the kingdom of heaven, and enjoy the same glory and happiness with them:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. Many who, today, seem to be unlikely to be converted, those who are “last” in character, will yet be “first” in repentance; and there who are “first” in privileges, and even in hopefulness, who will be “last” in the great day of account. May we take home to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The same day there came certain of the Pharisees,.... Who dwelt in Galilee, for they were in all parts of the country: these being nettled and filled with indignation at Christ, because of the parables he had that day delivered, the miracles he had wrought, and the several awful and striking things which dropped from him, and which they knew...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. Think of the Pharisees being concerned about Christ’s life! What an affectation of regard! Yet it was only affectation. We must always be on our guard against the foes of God even when they speak most fairly; indeed, it is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto them, go ye and tell that fox,.... Herod, who it may be sent them, of which Christ was not ignorant, nor of his design in it; and who, as Nero, for his cruelty, is compared to a lion, so he for his subtlety in this instance, as well as in the whole of his conduct, to a fox; though some think Christ has a regard to the Pharisees,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Jesus called Herod a fox because he wanted to get Christ out of his territory without having the opprobrium of driving him away. So he sent this roundabout message to try to make a coward of the Lord, and to get him to go off on his own account. Luk_13:32. Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nevertheless, I must walk,.... The Syriac version reads, "I must work", and so the Arabic: as going about doing good, casting out devils, and healing diseases: today and tomorrow, and the day following: a few days more in Galilee, and towards Jerusalem: all the Oriental versions read, "the day following I shall depart"; either out of this world;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. What a sad thing for Christ to have to say! So many holy men had been murdered in Jerusalem that he roughly put it as being true, in the main, that all the prophets were martyred there, the exceptions only proving the rule.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets,.... These words, with what follow, as they stand in Matthew 23:37 were delivered by Christ, when he was in the temple at Jerusalem; but here they were spoken by him when in Galilee, in Herod's jurisdiction; so that it appears, that the same words were spoken by Christ at different times, in...