Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents — Our Lord having now lost all hope of reclaiming these, speaks so as to affright others from the like sins.
Ye serpents — Our Lord having now lost all hope of reclaiming these, speaks so as to affright others from the like sins.
Verse 33. _YE SERPENTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS_] What a terrible stroke! - Ye are serpents, and the offspring of serpents. This refers to Matthew 23:31: they confessed that they were the children of...
YE SERPENTS - This name is given to them on account of their pretending to be pious, and very much devoted to God, but being secretly evil, At the heart, with all their pretensions, they were filled w...
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...
A LAST WARNING. With Matthew 23:33 _cf._ the Baptist's words, Matthew 3:7. Matthew 23:34. Luke 11:49 *....
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...
GENERATION. offspring, or brood. Plural as in Matthew 3:7; Matthew 12:34. and Luke 3:7. ESCAPE. escape from (Greek. _apo)_. App-104....
_generation of vipers_ See note ch. Matthew 3:7. _the damnation of hell_ Rather, THE JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA....
ΓΕΝΝΉΜΑΤΑ ἘΧΙΔΝΩ͂Ν. See note ch. Matthew 3:7....
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....
2. "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? [p. 791] 34. Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise m...
_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...
ΌΦΕΙΣ _voc. pl. от_ ΌΦΙΣ (G3824) змея, ΓΕΝΝΉΜΑ (G1081) то, что рождается; потомство. Об основе этого _см._ HSB, 395-97. ΈΧΙΔΝΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΈΧΙΔΝΑ (G2191) ядовитая змея (_см._ Matthew 3:7). ΦΎΓΗΤΕ...
YE SERPENTS, &C.— See Luke 3:7. Men of warm tempers are apt to mistake this part of Christ's discourse; they fancy that his giving the Pharisees names expressive of their characters, and his denouncin...
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...
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? YE SERPENTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS, HOW CAN YE ESCAPE THE DAMNATION OF HELL? In thus, at the end of his His ministr...
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...
23:33 hell? (c-12) Gehenna....
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...
See Matthew 3:7; Matthew 12:34. 34-36. Luke 11:49;...
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),...
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 GENERATION OF VIPERS. — Better, as in Matthew 3:7, _brood,_ or _progeny of vipers._ The word of rebuke which had come before from the lips of the Baptist, comes now, with even more intense keenness...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
wful ending to a terrific charge, indicating that the men who are predestined to superlative wickedness are appropriately doomed to the uttermost penalty. ὄφεις, γεν. ἐχιδνῶν; already stigmatised as f...
_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...
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...
33._Offspring of vipers. _After having demonstrated that the _scribes _are not only base enemies of sound doctrine, and wicked corrupters of the worship of God, but likewise deadly plagues of the Chur...
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...
YE SERVANTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS,.... The latter of these names, John the Baptist calls the Sadducees and Pharisees by, in Matthew 3:7 and Christ, in Matthew 12:34 both express their craft and sub...
_Ye_ serpents, _ye_ generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Ver. 33. _Ye serpents_] _Serpentum tot sunt venena, quot genera, _ saith Isidore, _tot pernicics quot species, tot d...
_Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers' wickedness_ Ye may now be as wicked as they: a word of permission, not of command: as if he had said, I contend with you no longer: I leave you to yoursel...
YE SERPENTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS, HOW CAN YE ESCAPE THE DAMNATION OF HELL? The actual and reputed graves of the prophets of the Old Testament were held in great veneration by the Jews of the time...
The eighth woe:...
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. 31-33. You (saith our Lord) confess that you are lineally descended from those who killed the prophets: you have not only their blood communicated to you, but their spirit; your behaviours and ca...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And therefore did the Lord term those whom He knew to be the offspring of men "a generation of vipers; "[644]...
Matthew 23:33 Serpents G3789 brood G1081 vipers G2191 How G4459 can G5343 (G5632) escape G575 condemnation G2920 h
“You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?” Jesus then depicts all their attempts to appear righteous as simply indicating that like snakes and vipers who are...
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...
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...
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 23:33. YE SERPENTS, YE BROOD OF VIPERS, etc. Comp. the similar language of John the Baptist (chap. Matthew 3:7). That was the first, and this the last recorded address to the unchanged Pharise...
YE SERPENTS, YE OFFSPRING OF VIPERS (οφεις γεννηματα εχιδνων). These blistering words come as a climax and remind one of the Baptist (Matthew 3:17) and of the time when the Pharisees accused Jesus o...
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...
HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO ESCAPE? The Bible speaks to warn, as well as to invite....
_How can ye escape the damnation of hell?_ - THE DIFFICULTY OF ESCAPING THE DAMNATION OF HELL I. What your situation actually is. 1. You are even now under sentence of condemnation. 2. You need t...
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 Corinthians 11:3; Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 10:29; Hebrews 12:25;...
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...