Verse 22
Remembered that he had said this unto them - Αυτοις , to them, is wanting in AEHLMS, Matt. BV, upwards of one hundred others; both the Syriac; Persic, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Slavonic, Vulgate, and Itala. Griesbach has left it out of the text.
They believed the scripture - The scripture which the evangelist immediately refers to may have been Psalm 16:10 . Compare this with Acts 2:31 , Acts 2:32 , and with Acts 13:35-37 . See also Psalm 2:7 , and compare it with Hebrews 1:5 , and Hebrews 5:5 , and with Acts 13:33 . They understood these scriptures in a sense in which they never before understood them.
It is the property of many prophecies never to be understood except by their accomplishment; but these are so marked that, when their fulfillment takes place, they cannot be misunderstood, or applied to any other event.
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