A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.

Verse 10. He marvelled, and said, &c.]

What can be so great a marvell, as that Christ marvelleth? So he wondered at his own work in Nathaniel, Ioh. 1. 47. and at his own love to miserable man-kinde, when he calls himself Wonderfull, Counsellour, &c. Isa. 9. 6. He wondered not, as the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 did, at the magnifi∣cence of the Temple: he was not a whit taken with all the beau∣ty and bravery of the world set before him by the devil, as it were in a land-skip: but at the Centurions faith he much marvelled,

it being a work of his own almighty power, which he puts not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 but for great purposes, Ephes. 1. 19. Where is easy to ob∣serve in the Originall a sixfold gradation.