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Matthew 23:38

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the temple made desolate? Was it on account of that ancient fabrication of the calf? Was it on account of the idolatry of the people? Was it for the blood of the prophets? Was it for the adultery and fornication of Israel? By no means, he says; for in all these transgressions they always found pardon open to them, and benignity; but it was because they killed the Son of their Benefactor, for He is coeternal with the Father. Whence He saith, "Father, let their temple be made desolate;[180]

Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

which plainly, in the revered Gospels, our Lord signified, when He said to the Jews, "Behold your house is left unto you desolate."[108]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI

Since, therefore, He has forsaken His people, He has also left His temple desolate, and rent the veil of the temple, and took from them the Holy Spirit; for says He, "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate."[35]

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    MATTHEW 23:38 u`mw/n e;rhmoj {B} On the one hand, it can be argued that copyists added e;rhmoj in order to conform the quotation to the text of Jeremiah 22:5. On the other hand, however, in...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Matthew 23:38. _BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE_] Ο οικος, _the temple_: - this is certainly what is meant. It was once the Lord's _temple, God's_ OWN _house_; but now he says, YOUR _temple_ or _house _- to...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YOUR HOUSE - The temple. The house of worship of the Jews. The chief ornament of Jerusalem. DESOLATE - About to be desolate or destroyed. To be forsaken as a place of worship, and delivered into the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM (Luke 13:34 f.*). Matthew 23:37 may be part of the utterance ascribed by Jesus to the Wisdom of God. If not, Jesus is referring not so much to His earlier visits to Jerusalem as...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killer of the prophets, stoner of those sent to you, how often have I wished to gather your children together, as a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings--and you refused....

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YOUR... YOU. Very emphatic. At the beginning of the Lord's ministry it was "My Father's house" (John 2:16); but at the end, after His rejection, it was "your house". HOUSE: i.e. the Temple, where He...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _your house_ i. e. Jerusalem, rather than the Temple. _desolate_ Omitted in the Vatican Codex, but too strongly supported to be removed from the text....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Ὁ ΟἾΚΟΣ ὙΜΩ͂Ν, i.e. Jerusalem, rather than the Temple. ὑμῶν, ‘yours,’ no longer God’s. ἜΡΗΜΟΣ. Omitted in the Vatican Codex, but too strongly supported to be removed from the text....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE FATE OF JERUSALEM...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 37. "O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, THOU THAT KILLEST THE PROPHETS, AND STONEST THEM WHICH ARE SENT UNTO THEE, HOW OFTEN WOULD I HAVE GATHERED THY CHILDREN TOGETHER, EVEN AS A HEN GATHERETH HER CHICKENS...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _WEEPING OVER THE CITY OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 23:34-39:_ God had done much to lead the Jews religiously. He sent prophets, wise men and scribes. The Jews rejected God's way and God's men. "Some of them...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΆΦΊΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) оставлять, покидать; _pass._ быть покинутым (BAGD)....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM!— Our Lord having laid before the Pharisees andthenationtheirheinousguiltandgrievouspunishment,thethought of the calamities which were comingupon them moved him exceedingly: his...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT: 23:37-39 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chicke...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. BEHOLD YOUR HOUSE - the Temple, beyond all doubt; but their house now, not the Lord's. See the note at Matthew 22:7. IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE, [ ere...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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),...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YOUR HOUSE] i.e. either, (1) the city itself, (2) the Temple, or, (3) the Jewish dispensation....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PATHETIC LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM (Luke 13:34). St. Luke places these words in another, and much less suitable connexion. As they occur in St. Matthew they form a worthy close to our Lord's ministry in J...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YOUR HOUSE. — The word “desolate” is omitted in some of the best MSS. The words “your house” may refer either generally to the whole polity of Israel, or more specifically to the “house” in which they...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἰδοὺ, etc., solemn, sorrowful abandonment of the city to its fate. ἀφίεται ὑμῖν, spoken to the inhabitants of Israel. ὁ οἶκος ὑ., your house, _i.e._, the city, not the temple; the people are conceived...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Apostrophe to the Holy City_ (Luke 13:34). Εἶτα πρὸς τὴν πόλιν ἀποστρέφει τὸν λόγον. Chrys., H. lxxiv....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Behold, your house. Their house shall be deprived of the protection of the God of heaven. He it was that had hitherto preserved them, and he also would inflict upon them those very severe judgments t...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    APOSTROPHE TO JERUSALEM Matthew 23:37-39. _“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how frequently did I wish to gather thy children, in the m...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under he...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    38_Lo, your house is left to you desolate. _He threatens the destruction of the temple, and the dissolution of the whole frame of civil government. Though they were disfigured by irreligion, crimes, a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE. Signifying that the city in which they dwelt, where they had their ceiled houses, and stately palaces, would, in a little time, within the space of forty y...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Ver. 38. _Behold, your house is left, &c._] City and temple both. God will not always stand men for a sinning stock. They that will not hear his word, sh...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, your house_ The temple, which is now your house, not God's; _is left unto you desolate_ Forsaken of God and his Christ, and sentenced to utter destruction. Our Lord spake this as he was going...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    YOUR HOUSE; their temple, which was soon after burned by the Romans, and remains desolate to this day....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The lament:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    34-39 Our Lord declares the miseries the inhabitants of Jerusalem were about to bring upon themselves, but he does not notice the sufferings he was to undergo. A hen gathering her chickens under her...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:39"....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 23:38 See G2400 (G5628) Your G5216 house G3624 left G863 (G5743) you G5213 desolate G2048...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGMENT IS TO COME ON THAT GENERATION WHO WILL SLAY JESUS AND HIS FOLLOWERS IN THE FORM OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (23:37-39). Jesus finishes with a lament over Jerusalem. It is not just the Scr...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Behold, your house is left to you desolate.” And because they had refused Him there was nowhere else to turn. They were so intense about their possession of God's house that they could not see beyond...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 23:37-39. Luke (Luke 13:34-35) inserts this lamentation at an earlier point of the history. It was probably uttered twice, if but once, on this occasion, when it was peculiarly fitting. Comp....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 23:38. YOUR HOUSE, the temple, which is no longer God's house, but yours. DESOLATE, a spiritual ruin to be followed by temporal ruin. Our Lord shortly afterwards (chap. Matthew 24:1) left the...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    NOW YOUR HOME WILL BE COMPLETELY FORSAKEN. This is a double prophecy. It says that when Jesus leaves the temple, God will also desert it and will no longer accept its worship. It also says that God wi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets._ THE INVITATION REFUSED Consider some of the different modes in which the rejection of God’s call has been made. Far, all do not reject Him a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:38 HOUSE. Here the reference is probably to the religious leaders in Jerusalem. All Jewish religious authority will collapse with the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:37 JERUSALEM apparently refers to the whole nation of Israel. ⇐...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 7:20; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Acts 6:13; Acts 6:14; Daniel 9:2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Behold your house — The temple, which is now your house, not God's: Is left unto you — Our Lord spake this as he was going out of it for the last time: Desolate — Forsaken of God and his Christ, and s...

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