κλείετε τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. In allusion to the symbolic ‘key of knowledge’ given to the Scribe on admission to the order. They use their keys to shut rather than to open the doors of the Kingdom.
Verse Matthew 23:14. Matthew 23:13. -Verse Matthew 23:14. _YE DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES_] On this subject I am in possession of nothing better than the following note of Dr. _Whitby_....
DEVOUR WIDOWS’ HOUSES - The word “houses” is used here to denote “property” or possessions of any kind. You take away or get possession of the property of widows by improper arts and pretences. This 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...
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...
WOE, &C. Compare Matthew 5:4. and see App-126. MAKE LONG PRAYER. praying at great length. THEREFORE. on this account. Greek. _dia_ (App-104.Matthew 23:2; Matthew 23:2). GREATER. more abundan
_ye devour widows" houses_ i. e. "consume their substance," by illegal exaction or by working upon their religious feelings; a common form of rapacity. The Vatican and Sinaitic MSS. omit this verse, w...
VER 14. "WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENCE MAKE LONG PRAYER: THEREFORE YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GREATER DAMNATION." Chrys., Hom. lxxiii: Ne...
_WOE TO YOU SCRIBES, PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES MATTHEW 23:13-24:_ Woes were pronounced because the Pharisees would not enter the kingdom themselves and hindered those that would enter. (Matthew 23:13) The...
FOR YE DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES— 2. This verse contains the _second_ reason of the woes; because they committed the grossest iniquities, being covetous and rapacious under a cloke of religion; they _devo...
TEXT: 23:13-15 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to...
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARIS...
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...
23:14 (f-0) Verse 14 of A.V. is not in the best MSS....
The omission of this v:, which has been wrongly inserted from Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47, reduces the eight woes to seven: see on Mk....
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...
YE DEVOUR WIDOWS’ HOUSES. — The avarice thus described may have attained its end either (1) by using the advantages which they possessed, as the jurists and notaries of the time, to press unjust claim...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
_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...
ὑποκριταί. _Vide_ at Matthew 6:2. This epithet is applied to the scribes and Pharisees in each of the woes with terrific iteration. κλείετε, ye shut the gates or the doors of the Kingdom of God, conce...
WOES FOR THE FALSE-HEARTED Matthew 23:13-26 These repeated woes may be translated, _Alas for you!_ Our Lord with unfailing accuracy indicates the inevitable doom which such conduct as that of the Pha...
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...
(6) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and (o) for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. (6) It is a common thing...
You devour the houses of widows. Here our blessed Saviour severely reprehends the hypocrisy and other vices of the Scribes and Pharisees, a little before his death, to make them enter into themselves,...
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...
14._For you devour widows’ houses. _He now proceeds farther, for he not only accuses them of open crimes which demand hatred and detestation, but even tears away the disguises of virtues, by which the...
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...
WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES,.... The same character is given as before, and the same woe denounced, and a fresh reason given of it: FOR YE DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES; that is, the good...
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Ver. 14. _Ye devour widows' house...
_But wo to you, scribes_, &c. Our Lord pronounced eight blessings upon the mount, he pronounces eight woes here, not as imprecations, but solemn, compassionate declarations of the misery which these s...
DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES; rob them of their estates. THEREFORE; on account of their hypocrisy. GREATER DAMNATION; more awful punishment....
The second woe: WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES, AND FOR A PRETENSE MAKE LONG PRAYER; THEREFORE YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GREATER DAMNATION. The Pharisees had...
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...
Mark hath the same, MARK 12:40 and LUKE 20:47. If any should think that long prayers are here condemned, he will be confuted by LUKE 6:12, where he will find that our Saviour _continued all night in p...
Matthew 23:14 Woe G3759 you G5213 scribes G1122 and G2532 Pharisees G5330 hypocrites G5273 For G3754 devour G2719
JESUS PASSES JUDGMENT ON THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES AND DESCRIBES THE DEVASTATIONS COMING ON THE WORLD PRIOR TO HIS COMING AGAIN AND THE JUDGMENT THAT WILL FOLLOW (23:1-25). Having made clear that He h...
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...
THEIR FAILURE TO BRING MEN UNDER THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (23:13-15). The first two woes attack the Scribes and Pharisees for actually preventing people from coming under the Kingly Rule of Heaven....
“But woe/alas to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingly rule of heaven against men, for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering in to enter...
Matthew 23:13. WOE UNTO YOU. This repeated formula is followed in each case by a reason, derived from evil character and conduct. Sin results in ‘woe.' BECAUSE YE SHUT UP THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, here...
Matthew 23:14. This verse, though misplaced, is a part of the word of God (Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47). YE DEVOUR WIDOWS' HOUSES, _i.e.,_ seize upon the property of the unprotected, here represented by...
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...
WOE The best manuscripts omit verse 14. (Matthew 23:14)....
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...
YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WIDOWS. We see Jesus allowing women to help him financially out of their great love (Luke 8:2-3). But these teachers of the Law and Pharisees were using religion as a fraud to ch...
_But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites._ THE SINS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES I. That they shut up the kingdom of heaven against men. “Neither suffer ye them that are entering in.” 1....
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 23:13. WOE.—There is indignation in the word, and just denunciation; but, as Vatable long ago remarked, there is “deploration” too. There is wailing in it. It is rendered “ala...
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 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Timothy 3:6; Exodus 22:22;...
Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47....
The second woe denounced against the Pharisees, is for their gross hypocrisy, in colouring over their covetousness with. pretence of religion; making long prayers in the temple and synagogues for wido...