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God's Plan in Human Failure
Jesus predicts the disciples' desertion by quoting the Old Testament, showing that this tragic failure was not an accident but part of God's sovereign plan. Commentators explain that the 'smiting' of the Shepherd was God's own action to bring about salvation. This reveals that God's ultimate purposes can be fulfilled even through human weakness and sin.
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Albert Barnes
On Matthew 26:31
18th Century
Theologian
Then Jesus says to them. The occasion of His saying this was Peter's bold affirmation that he was ready to die with Him ([Referen…
Charles Spurgeon
On Matthew 26:26–31
19th Century
Preacher
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. An…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Matthew 26:31
“This very night” makes clear how soon the disciples’ defection and Peter’s denial will happen. The intimacy of the Last Supper is shortly to be re…
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John Calvin
On Matthew 26:31
16th Century
Theologian
You will all be offended at me. What Matthew and Mark extend to all the disciples alike is related by Luke as having been spoken to Peter …
John Gill
On Matthew 26:31
17th Century
Pastor
Then says Jesus unto them
Either before they went out of the house, where they had been eating the passover, and the…
Matthew Henry
On Matthew 26:31–35
17th Century
Minister
Improper self-confidence, like that of Peter, is the first step to a fall. There is a proneness in all of us to be overconfident. But those fall so…
Thomas Aquinas
On Matthew 26:30–46
13th Century
Philosopher
After the institution of the new Sacrament has been related, Christ here foretells the future stumbling of the disciples. The Evangelist, first, es…