Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 5:20
The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees — Described in the sequel of this discourse.
The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees — Described in the sequel of this discourse.
Verse Matthew 5:20. _EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL EXCEED_] περισσευση, _Unless your righteousness abound more _- unless it take in, not only the _letter_, but the _spirit_ and _design_ of the _mor...
YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS - Your holiness; your views of the nature of righteousness, and your conduct and lives. Unless you are more holy than they are, you cannot be saved. SHALL EXCEED - Shall excel, or a...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
MATTHEW 5:17 TO MATTHEW 6:18. RIGHTEOUSNESS, LEGAL AND REAL. After laying down the principle that the Law is not destroyed or annulled, but developed and transcended (Matthew 5:17), Jesus applies it t...
FOR. SAY UNTO YOU. The "for" shows that this verse connects itself closely with the preceding, and that the Lord was alluding to the scribes and Pharisees. SHALL EXCEED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRI...
Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to fulfil them. This is the truth I tell you--until the heaven and the earth shall pass away, the...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has struc...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS. Supply "[that]". PHARISEES. See App-120. IN NO CASE. See App-105....
_scribes_ See note, ch. Matthew 7:29....
The poetical form traceable throughout the Sermon on the Mount is especially observable here. οὐ καταλῦσαι and πληρῶσαι are the key-words. The γὰρ in _v._18 (ἀμὴν γάρ) introduces an explanation of οὐ...
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΎΝΗ, ‘observance of the law.’ Unless ye observe the law with greater exactness than the Pharisees, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. The Pharisaic δικαιοσύνη consisted in extended and m...
Ver 20. "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. 21. Ye have heard that it...
_JESUS' TEACHING ABOUT INFLUENCE AND LAW MATTHEW 5:13-20:_ Those that exhibit the characteristics of the beatitudes become the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Those with humble and pure...
ΓΆΡ (G1063) поскольку. Вступление к разъяснению предыдущего высказывания. ΟΤΙ (G3754) используется в качестве кавычек при прямом цитировании, ΈΆΝ (G1437) если. Служит вступлением к _conj._ 3 типа, в...
DISCOURSE: 1299 EVANGELIC AND PHARISAIC RIGHTEOUSNESS COMPARED Matthew 5:20. _For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall...
THINK NOT THAT I AM COME TO DESTROY, &C.— Because the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ concerning happiness was contrary to that which the Jews were accustomed to hear, and which their preachers pret...
C. THE RELATION OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN TO THE LAW (Matthew 5:17-48) 1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD THE STANDARD, TEXT: 5:17-20 17. Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to d...
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT EXCEPT...
18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42. 21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11. 23 See Mar_1:21-39. 25 Compare Mar_3:7-8. 1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23. 1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was proba...
5:20 surpass (e-10) Or 'excel.' It includes the idea of being a better righteousness. see ver. 47....
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT John 5:1 to John 7:29. The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20. This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke (Luke 6:20), that it is
CHRISTIANITY AS THE FULFILMENT OF THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. This section is especially appropriate in St. Matthew's Jewish Gospel. St. Luke's sermon, being for Gentile readers, has nothing similar, an...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
SHALL EXCEED. — Better, _Shall abound more than._ SCRIBES AND PHARISEES. — Here, for the first time, the scribes are mentioned in our Lord’s teaching. The frequent combination of the two words (thirte...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Jesus defines His position_. At the period of the Teaching on the Hill Jesus felt constrained to define His ethical and religious position all round, with reference to the O. T. as the recognised aut...
Here is another type still, that of the scribes and Pharisees. We have had two degrees of worth, the little and the great. This new type gives us the moral zero. λέγω γὰρ. The γὰρ is somewhat puzzling...
NEW HEART RIGHTEOUSNESS Matthew 5:17-26 Our Lord's mission was not to destroy but to construct. As noon fulfils dawn, and summer, spring; as manhood fulfils childhood and the perfect picture, the ru...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
Of the Scribes and of the Pharisees. The Scribes were the doctors of the law of Moses; the Pharisees were a precise set of men, making profession of a more exact observance of the law: and upon that a...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
No doubt the Reader would wish to have a clear apprehension of the words Raca and Fool. The most acceptable service on these verses I can offer, will be to explain them. Raca, was a word used by the J...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE FAILURE OF THE PHARISEES_ ‘For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.’...
Matthew 5:20._Unless your righteousness shall be more abundant. He _takes a passing notice of _the Scribes, _who were laboring to throw a stain on the doctrine of the Gospel, as if it were the ruin of...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
FOR I SAY UNTO YOU,.... These words are directed, not to the true disciples of Christ in general, or to his apostles in particular, but to the whole multitude of the people; who had in great esteem an...
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed _the righteousness_ of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Ver. 20. _Except your righteous...
_For, except your righteousness shall exceed_ Gr. περισσευση, _shall abound more_ than _the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees_ Than that which is apparent in their lives, or even required in...
EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL EXCEED-SCRIBES AND PHARISEES; their righteousness was selfish, and consisted in externals; while the righteousness which God required is internal as well as external, a...
How strongly this feature is brought out by the contrast: FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL EXCEED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YE SHALL IN NO CASE ENTER INTO...
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
17-20 Let none suppose that Christ allows his people to trifle with any commands of God's holy law. No sinner partakes of Christ's justifying righteousness, till he repents of his evil deeds. The mer...
I am so far from giving a liberty to the violation of my Father's law, (as the scribes and Pharisees may possibly suggest), that I assure you that unless your obedience to it exceed that obedience whi...
Dialogue of Justin For He exhorted His disciples to surpass the pharisaic way of living, with the warning, that if they did not, they might be sure they could not be saved; and these words are record...
Matthew 5:20 For G1063 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 that G3754 unless G3362 your G5216 righteousness G1343 exceeds...
THE PERMANENCE OF THE LAW AND THE WARNING TO OBSERVE IT TRULY SO AS TO EXPERIENCE A FULLER RIGHTEOUSNESS (5:17-20). Having spoken to His disciples of a life which acts as a preservative in the world,...
A “Whoever therefore shall loose (relax, treat lightly, render ineffective) one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, b Will be called least in the Kingly Rule of Heaven, a But whoeve...
Matthew 5:20. The scribes and Pharisees, by minute explanations of the law, had made it very burdensome. The people, oppressed by this, longed for deliverance. Some hoped for it through an abolition o...
Our Lord defines His relation to the old dispensation (Matthew 5:17-19), thus introducing the negative leading thought, viz., the utter failure of the Pharisees to attain true righteousness, according...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
SHALL EXCEED (περισσευση πλειον). Overflow like a river out of its banks and then Jesus adds "more" followed by an unexpressed ablative (της δικαιοσυνης), brachylogy. A daring statement on Christ's...
RIGHTEOUSNESS (Matthew 5:6); (Matthew 5:10); (Matthew 5:20). (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 10:10). _...
Matthew 5:20 It is of the greatest possible importance that we understand, as accurately as we can, what is the nature of that righteousness which God accepts from us. For heaven is only for the right...
Matthew 5:17. _Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill._ The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testament,...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,-_ Our Saviour soon gathered a...
Matthew 5:13. _Ye are the salt of the earth:_ The earth would go putrid if there were no salt of grace to preserve it. So, dear friends, if God's grace is in you, there is a pungent savor about you w...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
ONLY IF YOU ARE MORE FAITHFUL. The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees claimed to do what God requires, but they were not faithful. _See_ Matthew 3:7-12....
_Your righteousness shall exceed._ AN EXCEEDING RIGHTEOUSNESS I. What is the nature of the righteousness God accepts from us? It is a righteousness in excess of the most scrupulous moralist. 1. A C...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:20 The SCRIBES AND PHARISEES took pride in their outward obedience to extrabiblical regulations. But they still had impure hearts (see Matthew 23:5,
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:17 These verses explain how Jesus and the kingdom fulfill the Law of Moses. This is the key to interpreting the Sermon on the Mount and indeed the whole of Jesus’ ministry....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs....
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
2 Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 12:14; John 3:3; Luke 11:39; Luke 11:40;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of p...
Observe here, 1. glorious prize or reward set before the Christian as attainable, namely, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. Observe, 2. The means required in order to our obtaining of this prize, and laying hol...