For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Christ sends you as sheep into wolves' jaws, so you must learn to combine the serpent's cunning with the dove's innocence. He forewarned the disciples of sufferings to come, not to shake their faith, but to steel it; when troubles arrive as He predicted, they will confirm rather than destroy what you believe.
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Commenting on Matthew 10:16-42
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death,.... Christ having fortified the minds of his disciples by the foregoing promises of divine influence and assistance, proceeds to open more largely and particularly the sorrows, troubles, and afflictions they must expect would attend the faithful ministration of his Gospel; as, that the true followers of Christ should not only be persecuted and betrayed, and...
The Samaritans, though descended from pagan colonists, had adopted Jewish religion with admixtures of their own, placing them between Jews and Gentiles. When the Spirit was poured out at Pentecost, the apostles' prohibition was lifted: they were to witness first in Jerusalem and Judea, then in Samaria, then to the uttermost earth.
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Commenting on Matthew 10:5-42