And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
John rebuked the Jews for falsely making him the Messiah, and his refusal of honor they offered him proves his testimony credible, no ambition taints his words. When he says he is unworthy to untie Christ's sandals, he abases himself utterly so that Christ alone may have preeminence; all God's servants, however great, are nothing beside Him, as stars vanish before the sun.
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Luke passes over Perga in silence, though Diana's temple stood there, because the whole world could not contain all that might be written. Paul and Barnabas went straight to the synagogue at Antioch, not to curry favor with magistrates, but to the Jews themselves, proving their true care for their souls. This was always the way: to show how the New Testament flows directly from the Old, which the Jews already held sacred.
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Commenting on Acts 13:14-41
The rulers at Jerusalem knew neither Christ Himself nor the voices of the prophets that testified of Him, the very prophecies read every sabbath day. They fulfilled those writings by condemning Him to death, though they claimed ignorance of what they read.
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