Hebrews 12:1
So, therefore, als (since) we have surrounding us so great an Anan Edim (Cloud of Witnesses), let us also lay aside every weighty impediment and easily ensnaring averos, and let us run with endurance and savlanut the race set before us,
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Job 8:10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, 1 and bring forth words out of their lev? 1
Isaiah 60:8Who are these that fly like a cloud, 1 and like the yonim to their roosts? 1
Ezekiel 38:16And thou shalt come up against My people Yisroel, like an anan (cloud) covering ha'aretz; it shall be in the acharit hayamim, and I will bring thee against My land, so that the Goyim may know Me, when I shall be shown as set apart as kodesh in thee, O Gog, before their eynayim.
Matthew 10:37The one who has more ahavah (love) for a tata (papa) or a mama than for me + 10:37 Moshiach is not worthy of me, + 10:37 Moshiach and the one who has more ahavah (love) for a ben or a bat than me is not worthy of me.
Mark 10:50And having tossed aside his kaftan, and having jumped up, he came to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
Luke 9:59And he said to another, Follow me. But the ish said, Adoni, allow me to go first and bury the Av of me.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:1
The apostle, in this chapter, applies what he has collected in the chapter foregoing, and makes use of it as a great motive to patience and perseverance in the Christian faith and state, pressing home the argument, I. From a greater example than he had yet mentioned, and that is Christ himself, ver. 1-3 . II. From the gentle and gracious nature of the afflictions they endured in their Christian course, ver. 4-17 . III. From the communion and conformity between the state of the gospel-church on earth and the… Read the whole commentary →