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Why don`t you judge for yourselves what is right?
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Inexcusable Spiritual Blindness
Commentators agree that Jesus is rebuking the crowd for a glaring inconsistency. They could skillfully interpret natural signs to predict the weather, yet they failed to use their own God-given reason and conscience to recognize the profound spiritual signs of His ministry. This failure to 'judge what is right' was not from a lack of evidence but from a willful negligence, leaving them without excuse.
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Even of yourselves (κα αφ' εαυτων). Without the presence and teaching of Jesus they had light enough to tell what is right (το δικ…
19th Century
Anglican
Yea, and why even of yourselves do you not judge what is right?—Better, judge that which is just. The meaning of…
16th Century
Protestant
And why even of yourselves, etc.? Here Christ opens up the source of the evil and, as it were, applies the lancet to the ulcer. He tells t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, and why even of yourselves From their own observation, as in discerning the signs of the weather; in a rational…
Presbyterian
Christ would have people be as wise in the concerns of their souls as they are in outward affairs. Let them hasten to obtain peace with God before …
