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Matthew 23:31
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Verse 31. _YE BE WITNESSES_] Ye acknowledge that ye are the children of those murderers, and ye are about to give full proof that ye are not _degenerated_. There are many who think that, had they li...
YE BE WITNESSES UNTO YOURSELVES - The emphasis, here, lies in the words “to yourselves.” It is an appeal to their conscience. It was not by their building the tombs that they were witnesses that they...
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...
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...
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...
WHEREFORE. so that. CHILDREN. sons. App-108....
_witnesses unto yourselves_ You call yourselves children, and indeed you _are_children of those who slew the prophets. You inherit their wickedness in compassing the death of the Prophet of the Lord....
ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΙ͂ΤΕ ἙΑΥΤΟΙ͂Σ. You call yourselves children, and indeed you _are_ children of those who slew the prophets. You inherit their wickedness in compassing the death of the Prophet of the Lord. See n...
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...
ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) следовательно, по этой причине, ΜΑΡΤΥΡΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΈΩ (G3140) свидетельствовать, ΈΑΥΤΟΙΣ _dat. pl. от_ ΈΑΥΤΌΣ (G1438). _Dat._ отсутствия преимущества: "против себя...
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...
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...
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...
UNTO YOURSELVES] or, 'against yourselves.' The v. is an ironical commentary on the statement of the Pharisees (Matthew 23:30), 'If we had been in the days of our fathers,' etc. Jesus retorts, 'You wit...
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...
YE BE WITNESSES UNTO YOURSELVES. — Their words were true in another sense than that in which they had spoken them. They were reproducing in their deeds the very lineaments of those fathers whom they c...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
ὥστε, with indicative expressing result = therefore. ἑαυτοῖς, to and against yourselves. Jesus reads more meaning into their words than they intended: “our fathers”; yes! they _are_ your fathers, in s...
_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...
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...
WHEREFORE YE BE WITNESSES UNTO YOURSELVES,.... Or "against yourselves", as the Syriac reads; for what they said was a plain acknowledgment, and a full confession, what their fathers had done, and whos...
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Ver. 31. _Wherefore ye be witnesses, &c._] Here our Saviour casts all their cost in their teeth,...
WITNESS-CHILDREN OF THEM WHICH KILLED THE PROPHETS; by calling the murderers of the prophets "our fathers," they acknowledged themselves to be their literal children; and by imitating them in their de...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:33"....
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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...
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...
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...
“Thus you witness to yourselves, that you are sons of those who slew the prophets. Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.” Jesus then points out to them that by all this they are simply drawin...
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 23:31. SO THEN. ‘You acknowledge the sins of your fathers, but hypocritically deny your own, adding hypocrisy to impiety,' YE WITNESS TO YOURSELVES, your own consciences condemning you, THAT...
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...
SO YOU ACTUALLY ADMIT! He is saying: "You have proved yourselves to be the same kind of people as your ancestors who murdered the prophets." From where they stood, they could see the whitewashed tombs...
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....
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52;...
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...
Wherefore ye testify against yourselves — By your smooth words as well as devilish actions: that ye are the genuine sons of them who killed the prophets of their own times, while they professed the ut...