...pitying the simplicity and easiness of their sergeants, answer them thus : f" Are ye also deceived ? Have any of the rulers, or of the pharisees, believed on him ? But this people, who know not the law, are cursed :" implying that, if the people had been as well...

...pitying the simplicity and easiness of their sergeants, answer them thus : f" Are ye also .deceived ? Have any of the rulers, or of the pharisees, believed on him ? But this people, who know not the law, are cursed :" implying that, if the people had been as well...

...through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." The question, " Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him ?" shews that his doctrine was not at all acceptable among those who are called the higher ordert....

...And now, brethren, I wot through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.' Acts iii. 17. — * Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him ?' John vii. 48. — • If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin : but now they...

...ministry of Him who spake as never man spake ; and we find the taunting adversary asking in triumph, " Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him ? " Study the career of the great Apostle of the Gentiles, — a career unparalleled in toils, sufferings,...

...really in the heart, and though any thing of the Gospel infinitely surpasses the utmostpretensions of infidelity ; surely we should not become professors,...edited by Mr. Parsons. Vol. 2d. p. 114, 153, 476. 1823/] an infulel kingdom, such religionists would run great hazard of being carried away with the...

...answered, " Never man spake like this man." Whereupon the Pharisees reply, " Are ye also deceived ? Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him ? But this people, who know not the law, are cursed." This shows what was meant by " believing on him,"...

...18, and partook of the reverence paid to the memory of the original lawgiver. The subtle question, " Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him ?" evidently shows, that if he could have obtained their countenance, or 18 Matt, xxiii. even have...

...world.' This took with them in John vii. 47 ; Then answered them the pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the pharisees believed on him ? But this people 'who knoweth not the law, are cursed. Now the remedies against this device, are these....

...officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him? but this people, who knoweth not the law, are cursed. Nicodemus saith, &c. Doth our law judge any man...