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Verse 34. _WHEREFORE_] To show how my prediction, _Ye will fill_ _up
the measure of your fathers_, shall be verified, _Behold, I send_ (I
am just going to commission them) _prophets_, c. _and some ye...
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I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS ... - Jesus doubtless refers here to the
apostles, and other teachers of religion. Prophets, wise men, and
scribes were the names by which the teachers of religion were known...
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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...
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A LAST WARNING. With Matthew 23:33 _cf._ the Baptist's words, Matthew
3:7.
Matthew 23:34. Luke 11:49 *....
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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...
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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...
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WHEREFORE. Because of this. Greek. _dia_ (App-104.Matthew 23:2;
Matthew 23:2) _touto._
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.
FROM. away from. Greek. _apo_. App-104....
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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....
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ἈΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ … ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΣ ΚΑῚ ΣΟΦΟῪΣ ΚΑῚ
ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕῚΣ. Marking the continuity of the Christian with
the Jewish Church.
ἈΠΟΚΤΕΝΕΙ͂ΤΕ ΚΑῚ ΣΤΑΥΡΏΣΕΤΕ. Kill, directly
as Stephen (Acts 7:59), indirectly as James...
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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...
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_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...
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ΔΙΆ ΤΟΎΤΟ поэтому. Эти слова указывают
на действие, которое предпримет Иисус;
из-за того что Он был принят плохо,
будут и еще посланники, но в конце
концов исчерпается мера беззакония и
последует суд...
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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...
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WHEREFORE— Δια τουτο, _"for this cause_—that ye are
_serpents,_ and a _brood of vipers,_ who will fill up the measure of
your fathers' iniquities." Our Saviour's meaning was, not that he
would send th...
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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...
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Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them
shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city...
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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...
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I SEND UNTO YOU] The parallel in St. Luke (which see) has 'Therefore
also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets,' etc. The
prophets, etc., are the apostles, prophets, teachers, evange...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
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BEHOLD, I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS. — In the parallel passage of Luke
11:49 these words are introduced by the statement, “Therefore said
the wisdom of God,” which has led some to see in them a quotation...
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6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1
CHAPTER 17
Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
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_Peroration_ (Luke 11:49-51)....
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διὰ τοῦτο. The sense requires that this be connected with
both Matthew 23:32-33. The idea is that all God's dealings with Israel
have been arranged from the first so as to ensure that the generation
a...
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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...
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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...
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(10) Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of
them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them]...
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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...
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"Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them
shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city...
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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...
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_THE CHRISTIAN IN THE WORLD_
‘Behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and
some of them ye shall kill and crucify.’
Matthew 23:34
This passage occurs in the Gospel for St. Steph...
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34._Therefore, lo, I send to you. Luke _introduces it in a still more
emphatic manner, _Wherefore also the Wisdom of God hath said; _which
some commentators explain thus: “I, who am the eternal _Wisdo...
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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...
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WHEREFORE, BEHOLD I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS,.... To try them, whether
they would show the respect to prophets, they pretended to have for
them; by building and beautifying their sepulchres; by exclaimi...
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Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and _some_ of them ye shall kill and crucify; and _some_ of
them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute _them_ from...
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Mat. 23:34, 35. "Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise
men, and scribes; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some
of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute...
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_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...
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PROPHETS; his apostles and other teachers of his religion. Acts 5:17;
Acts 5:40; Acts 7:59. The most awful denunciations of divine wrath
against the wicked are perfectly consistent with the greatest
k...
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>WHEREFORE, BEHOLD, I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS AND WISE MEN AND SCRIBES;
AND SOME OF THEM YE SHALL KILL AND CRUCIFY, AND SOME OF THEM YE SHALL
SCOURGE IN YOUR SYNAGOGUES, AND PERSECUTE THEM FROM CITY TO...
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THE PERORATION AND THE LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM....
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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...
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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...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:36"....
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
And He called His disciples "scribes" and "teachers of the kingdom of
heaven; "of whom also He elsewhere says to the Jews: "Behold, I send
unto you wise men, and scr...
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Matthew 23:34 Therefore G1223 G5124 indeed G2400 (G5628) I G1473 send
G649 (G5719) G4314 you...
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JESUS INFORMS THEM OF WHAT THEIR FUTURE WILL BE (23:34-36).
Having warned the crowds and the disciples against being like the
Scribes and Pharisees in their behaviour, ending with an exhortation
to hu...
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“Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you
will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,”
J...
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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...
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Matthew 23:34. THEREFORE BEHOLD I SEND UNTO YOU. Comp. Luke 11:49.
‘Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them,' Here
Christ, having already spoken as Judge, says, ‘I send.' He is ‘the
wi...
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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...
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SEND UNTO YOU
The Jews' treatment of the apostles is proved, (Matthew 23:31)....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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AND SO I TELL YOU. Read Luke 11:49-51. I WILL SEND. Even after the
Cross, God sent the apostles and evangelists [preachers of the Good
News] to offer them a chance to repent. But the Jewish leaders di...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Corinthians 3:10; 1
Thessalonians 2:16;...
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Wherefore — That it may appear you are the true children of those
murderers, and have a right to have their iniquities visited on you:
Behold, I send — Is not this speaking as one having authority?
Pr...
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Did Jesus make a mistake in referring to Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
rather than to Zechariah the son of Berechiah?
PROBLEM: Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees that the guilt of all
the righteo...
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Observe here,. prophetical prediction, and. severe denunciation.
1. prediction foretelling what cruel usage the apostle should meet
with from the Jews, killing and crucifying some, scourging and stoni...