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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes QUOTES

1 " the Pharisees, and the other self-justifying Jews, who though that they needed no repentance, and that therefore God should abundantly rejoice in them, and make his boast of them, as those that were most his honour; but Christ tells them that it was quite otherwise, that God was more praised in, and pleased with, the penitent broken heart of one of those despised, envied sinners, than all the long prayers which the scribes and Pharisees made, who could not see any thing amiss in themselves. Nay, "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes

2 " The loser is here supposed to be a woman, who will more passionately grieve for her loss, and rejoice in finding what she had lost, than perhaps a man would do, and therefore it the better serves the purpose of the parable. She "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes

3 " This silver was lost in the dirt; a soul plunged in the world, and overwhelmed with the love of it and care about it, is like a piece of money in the dirt; any one would say, It is a thousand pities that it should lie there. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes

4 " God will delight to show them mercy, will reckon their conversion a return for all the expense he has been at upon them. There is always joy in heaven. God rejoiceth in all his works, but particularly in the works of his grace. He rejoiceth to do good to penitent sinners, with his whole heart and his whole soul. He rejoiceth not only in the conversion of churches and nations, but even over one sinner that repenteth, though but one. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes

5 " The diligent attendance of the publicans and sinners upon Christ's ministry. Great multitudes of Jews went with him (ch. xiv. 25), with such an assurance of admission into the kingdom of God that he found it requisite to say that to them which would shake their vain hopes. Here multitudes of publicans and sinners drew near to him, with a humble modest fear of being rejected by him, and to them he found it requisite to give encouragement, especially because there were some haughty supercilious people that frowned upon them. The "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes

6 " Observe, he calls it his sheep, though a stray, a wandering sheep. He has a right to it (all souls are mine), and he will claim his own, and recover his right; therefore he looks after it himself: I have found it; he did not send a servant, but his own Son, the great and good Shepherd, who will find what he seeks, and will be found of those that seek him not. "

― Matthew Henry , Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in 6 Volumes