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Matthew 23:30
and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Verse 30. _WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PARTAKERS_] They imagined themselves much better than their ancestors; but our Lord, who knew what they would do, uncovers their hearts, and shows them that they are...
AND SAY ... - This they professed to say by rebuilding their tombs. They also, probably, publicly expressed their disapprobation of the conduct of their fathers. All this, in building and ornamenting...
11. THE WOES OF THE KING AND HIS LAMENTATION OVER JERUSALEM. CHAPTER 23 1. The Hypocrisy of the Pharisees.(Matthew 23:1 .) 2. The Woes of the King upon Them.(Matthew 23:13 .) 3. The Lamentation over...
SEVEN WOES. Seven is a sacred number and often used in Mt., as in OT (_cf._ especially Isaiah 5) and _Rev._ The first three treat of Pharisaic teaching, the last three of Pharisaic character, the four...
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES (Matthew 23:1-39) If a man is characteristically and temperamentally an irritable, ill-tempered and irascible creature, notoriously given to uncontrolled outbursts of passionate...
Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you erect the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the memorials of the righteous, and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not h...
IF, &C. The condition being assumed as an actual fact....
ἬΜΕΘΑ. The same form occurs Acts 27:37 and Galatians 4:3 (אD*) and Ephesians 2:3 (אB). In the classics ἤμεθα is not found, and the instances of the sing. ἤμην (the usual form in N.T.) are rare and dou...
Matthew 23:1-36. A PROPHETIC ODE, DENOUNCING THE PHARISEES AND THE RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY OF THE AGE Each division is marked by its special beauty of poetical form....
VER 29. "WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! BECAUSE YE BUILD THE TOMBS OF THE PROPHETS, AND GARNISH THE SEPULCHRES OF THE RIGHTEOUS, 30. AND SAY, IF WE HAD BEEN IN THE DAYS OF OUR FATHER...
_MORE WOES FOR THE SCRIBES, PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES MATTHEW 23:25-33:_ The scribes and Pharisees were not clean on the inside, in their heart, where it mattered. They were religiously beautiful on the o...
ΉΜΕΘΑ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) 1 pers. pl._ от ΕΙΜΊ (G1510). ΆΝ (G302) используется для введения второй части _conj._, противоречащего факту....
YE MAKE CLEAN THE OUTSIDE, &C.— 6. The _sixth_ woe is denounced for their hypocrisy: they were at great pains to appear virtuous, and to have a decent external conduct, while they neglected to beautif...
YE BUILD THE TOMBS, &C.— 8. The _eighth_ woe is denounced, because by the pains they took in adorning the sepulchres of the prophets, they pretended a great veneration for their memory; and as often a...
TEXT: 23:29-36 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, 30 and say, If we had been in the days of our fa...
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, WOE UNTO YOU ... HYPOCRITES! YE BUILD THE TOMBS OF THE PROP...
16 The Pharisees had practically annulled the Scriptures by false interpretations and especially by human additions. Their commentaries were full of distinctions which destroyed the spiritual force of...
DENUNCIATION OF THE PHARISEES 1-36. Final denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees. The other synoptists insert in this place a brief utterance directed against the scribes (Mark 12:38; Luke 20:45),...
THE SEVEN WOES ON THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES. Jesus, knowing that His death was at hand, and that the conversion of His enemies was hopeless, poured upon them a torrent of righteous indignation, in the...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 23 JESUS ACCUSES THE *PHARISEES 23:1-12 V1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his *disciples. V2 ‘The men who teach the *Law and...
IF WE HAD BEEN IN THE DAYS ... — There is no necessity for assuming that the Pharisees did not mean what they said. It was simply an instance of the unconscious hypocrisy of which every generation has...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
λέγετε : they not merely thought, or said by deed, but actually so pointed the moral of their action, not trusting to others to draw the inference. ἤμεθα, not in classics, ἤμην the usual form of sing....
_Final woe_ (Luke 11:47-48), dealing with yet another phase of hypocrisy and a new form of the contrast between without and within; apparent zeal for the honour of deceased prophets, real affinity wit...
_The seven woes_. There are eight, if we count that in Matthew 23:13 of T. R., but as this ver. is omitted in the best MSS. and appears to be a gloss from Mk. and Lk. I do not count it. _Vide_ notes o...
JUDGMENT AND LAMENT Matthew 23:27-39 True goodness recognizes and rewards good in the living; while the evil-minded cannot, or will not, believe that the people whom they meet daily are purely and si...
This chapter is one of the most sublime and awful in the whole inspired volume. It records the last words of Jesus to the crowds. He summed up, He reached His verdict, He pronounced sentence. It is a...
WOES AGAINST THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES Luke 20:47; Mark 12:40; Matthew 23:13-39. “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you devour the houses of widows, and through pretense make lo...
"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (14) Woe unt...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
30._If we had been in the days of our fathers. _Not without good reason did Christ introduce this sentiment; for though he does not blame them for the conduct of their fathers, and does not make it th...
Chapter 23 clearly shews how far the disciples are viewed in connection with the nation, inasmuch as they were Jews, although the Lord judges the leaders, who beguiled the people and dishonoured God b...
AND SAY, IF WE HAD BEEN IN THE DAYS OF OUR FATHERS,.... Their ancestors and predecessors: signifying, that if they had lived in the times they did, or had been in the same post and office with them, t...
And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Ver. 30. _If we had been in the days_] Either these men grossly dissembled...
The Lord now turns to speak to the entire crowd, His disciples being mentioned as included. He warns them against the hypocrisy of scribes and Pharisees, for they sat in Moses' seat as enforcers of th...
13-33 The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ, and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others f...
Ver. 29,30. Luke hath it, LUKE 11:47, _Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they...
A Letter from Origen to Africanus For they who build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, condemning the crimes their fathers committed against the righteous and the...
Matthew 23:30 and G2532 say G3004 (G5719) If G1487 lived G2258 (G5713) in G1722 days G2250 our...
WORDS IN THE TEMPLE (23:1-39). a Exhortation to His disciples and the crowds not to be like the Scribes and Pharisees, but to be doers and not hearers only. In contrast to the Scribes and Pharisees t...
JESUS FACES THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES UP TO THEIR HYPOCRISY (23:13-33). It will be quite clear that the words which Jesus has spoken to His disciples and the crowds could hardly have failed to rile th...
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the monuments of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would...
IN SPITE OF THEIR CLAIMS TO BE OTHERWISE THEY SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT THEY WERE SIMPLY AS BAD AS THEIR FATHERS (23:29-33). Along with their generation the Scribes and Pharisees made a great fuss about t...
Matthew 23:30. AND SAY. By the act of building the tombs, and also in word. IF WE HAD BEEN IN THE DAYS OF OUR FATHERS, etc. Their ‘fathers' by natural lineage. The moral relationship they deny, but...
This discourse (peculiar to Matthew) was delivered on Tuesday preceding the crucifixion, although similar sayings (found in Luke 11:13) were uttered on a previous occasion. The intercourse with the Ph...
Matthew 23:29. _Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fat...
CONTENTS: Jesus denounces woes upon the Pharisees for their hypocrisy. His lament over Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: Jesus. CONCLUSION: Nothing is more displeasing to our Lord Jesus Christ than hyprocrisy,...
Matthew 23:2. _Sit in Moses' seat._ The sanhedrim had seventy one chairs of gold, or rather gilt with gold. The council which sat at Alexandria had also chairs of gold. The highpriest was the presiden...
AND YOU SAY. But they were in fact doing the very same things which their ancestors did!...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:29 _Seventh woe: descendants of murderers of the prophets._ In plotting against Jesus, the religious leaders follow their ancestors, who persecuted and MURDERED God’s PROPHE...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:13 Jesus now speaks directly to the scribes and Pharisees. He declares seven “woes” (or laments) upon them that echo the criticisms he has repeated throughout his ministry....
CHAPTER 23 _Then Jesus spake_, &c. _Then_, that is to say, when, by His most wise answers and reasonings, He had confounded the errors of the Scribes and Pharisees, and had proved that He was the Mes...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 23:29. BUILD THE TOMBS, ETC.—See R.V. A portion of the temple offerings were devoted to this purpose. Matthew 23:31. THE CHILDREN.—You inherit their wickedness in compassing...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 23:1 _Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her own destruction. _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) MATTHEW 23:1 TH...
Matthew's gospel twenty-three. Jesus has been at the temple and He was challenged as to His authority by these priests, and then He was asked questions by the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees. An...
2 Chronicles 36:15; Jeremiah 2:30; Matthew 21:35; Matthew 21:36;...
A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN Matthew 23:23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "A double minded man is unstable in all his days." We have in Matthew 23:1, a striking illustration of these words. 1. WE HAVE PIETY as A PRETEN...
We would not have been partakers — So ye make fair professions, as did your fathers....