Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.… I. Mark the POSITION our Saviour occupied, as forming a key to the whole of the Sermon on the Mount. II. The MEANING of these words. 1. Christ fulfilled the law in His teaching. He completed it. 2. Christ fulfilled the law by His own personal, unbroken obedience. 3. Christ fulfilled the law by. His sufferings and death. (W. G. Barrett.) Parallel Verses KJV: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. |