τοῖς ὄχλοις καὶ τ. μαθηταῖς : the discourse is about scribes and Pharisees, but the audience is conceived to consist of the disciples and the people. Meyer describes the situation thus: in the foreground Jesus and His disciples; a little further off the ὄχλος; in the background the Pharisees.
CHAPTER XXIII. _The character of the scribes and Pharisees, and directions to_ _the people and the disciples to receive the law from them, but_ _not to follow their bad example_, 1-7. _The discipl...
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...
WARNINGS TO THE PEOPLE AND THE DISCIPLES. Matthew 23:2 f. Loisy regards this as an interpolation (by a Judaising redactor) out of harmony with the attack that follows. Holtzmann thinks it is Mt.'s, b...
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, "The Scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses's seat. Therefore do and observe everything they tell you; but do not act as they act; for they speak, but t...
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...
MULTITUDE. crowds. Note the Structure (p. 1857)....
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF THE PHARISEES They are the successors of Moses, Matthew 23:2; but they say and do not, 3–7. Only a part of this discourse appears in the other Synoptics; for this portion cp....
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....
VER 1. THEN SPAKE JESUS TO THE MULTITUDE, AND TO HIS DISCIPLES, 2. SAYING, "THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES SIT IN MOSES' SEAT: 3. ALL THEREFORE WHATSOEVER THEY BID YOU OBSERVE, THAT OBSERVE AND DO; BUT...
_WOE TO THOSE THAT ARE RELIGIOUS FOR THE WRONG MOTIVES MATTHEW 23:1-12:_ Jesus taught His followers to "observe and do" what the Pharisees taught as they, "sat in Moses' seat." They knew and understoo...
ΈΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980) говорить. О литературных проблемах главы _см._ Carson, 469-71; Mark Alan Powell, "Do and Keep What Moses Says (Matthew 23:2-7)" JBL 114 (1995): 419-34; Hagne...
THEN SPAKE JESUS, &C.— Because our Saviour had mentioned the final conquest and destruction of his enemies, who were to be made his footstool, he turned towards his disciples, and in the hearing of al...
SECTION 59 JESUS ATTACKS THE SIN OF THE RIGHTEOUS (Parallels: Mark 12:38-40; Luke 20:45-47) TEXT: 23:1-4 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2 saying, The scribes and the Phar...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, The first twelve verses were addressed more immediately to the disciples, the rest to the scribes and Pharisees. THEN SPAKE JESUS TO THE M...
24 From their subsequent course (Act_23:8), it is evident that the Sadducees were not convinced. Their difficulty was deeper. It was in the heart. Though they could not answer, they could refuse to be...
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...
XXIII. (1) TO THE MULTITUDE. — Now, as in Matthew 15:10, but here more fully and emphatically, our Lord not only reproves the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, but warns the multitude against them. He appea...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
HUMBLING THE SELF-EXALTED Matthew 23:1-12 These words were addressed to the disciples and the crowds that had gathered around. The Jewish religious leaders divorced morality and religion, and insist...
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...
Then Jesus, &c. Jesus thus spoke to the multitude a few days previous to his passion. It is here observable that our Saviour, after he had tried all possible remedies, after he had taught and confirme...
WARNINGS AGAINST THE EVIL EXAMPLE OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES It is still Wednesday, and the last day our Lord ever spoke in the temple. These scribes and Pharisees are thronging Him on all sides, be...
"Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, (2) Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: (3) All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do n...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Lord Jesus is engaged in exhorting his disciples, and the multitude, against the doctrine of the Scribes and Pharisees. The Chapter closeth with Christ's pathetic lamenta...
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...
Matthew 23:1._Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes. _This warning was highly useful, that, amidst contentions and the noise of combats, amidst the trouble and confusion of public affairs, amidst the des...
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...
THEN SPAKE JESUS TO THE MULTITUDE,.... To the common people that were about him in the temple; the high priests and elders, Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees, having left him, being all nonplussed and...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Ver. 1. _Then spake Jesus to the multitude, &c._] Christ having confuted and confounded the Scribes and Pharisees, turns him to the people and...
_Then spake Jesus to the multitude_ Leaving all converse with his adversaries; whom he now gave up to the hardness of their hearts. _The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses's seat_ Or, _chair_ That is,...
THE INORDINATE AMBITION OF THE PHARISEES. Hypocrisy in high places:...
THEN SPAKE JESUS TO THE MULTITUDE AND TO HIS DISCIPLES,...
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...
1-12 The scribes and Pharisees explained the law of Moses, and enforced obedience to it. They are charged with hypocrisy in religion. We can only judge according to outward appearance; but God search...
MATTHEW CHAPTER 23 MATTHEW 23:1 Christ exhorteth to observe the doctrine, but not to follow the evil examples, of the scribes and Pharisees; and particularly not to imitate their ambition. MATTHEW 23:...
Tertullian On Monogamy But further, if Christ reproves the scribes and Pharisees, sitting in the official chair of Moses, but not doing what they taught,[68]...
Matthew 23:1 Then G5119 Jesus G2424 spoke G2980 (G5656) multitudes G3793 and G2532 His G846 disciples G3101...
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...
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...
EXHORTATION TO HIS DISCIPLES AND THE CROWDS NOT TO BE LIKE THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, BUT TO BE DOERS AND NOT HEARERS ONLY, AND RATHER TO BE HUMBLE AND LOWLY, TREATING EACH OTHER AS BEING AS GOOD IF N...
‘Then spoke Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples,' Sitting teaching in the crowded Temple courtyard, filled as it would be with pilgrims and worshippers, Jesus directs His first words at the eager...
Matthew 23:1. TO THE MULTITUDES, AND TO HIS DISCIPLES. Luke (Luke 20:45): ‘then in the audience of all the people, he said to his disciples.' His disciples were probably close about Him, the people ga...
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...
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...
THEN JESUS SPOKE TO THE CROWDS. Probably in the Court of the Gentiles in the temple. This is the official close of his public ministry, just as the Sermon on the Mount was the beginning. This is more...
_The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat._ CHRIST’S REPROACHES OF PHARISEES There must be some just, reasonable, and great cause of our Lord’s indignation, and this we find was an accumulat...
JESUS WARMS AGAINST THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS MATTHEW 23:1-12; MARK 12:38-40; LUKE 20:45-47; MATTHEW 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the mul
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 23:1. THEN SPAKE JESUS.—The day of grace is over for the leaders of the people; but for the people themselves there may still be hope; so the Lord of the temple turns to THE M...
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...
Luke 12:1; Luke 12:57; Luke 20:45; Mark 7:14; Matthew 15:10...
Then — Leaving all converse with his adversaries, whom he now left to the hardness of their hearts....
The Scribes and Pharisees, so often mentioned in the gospels, were the great doctors and spiritual guides amongst the Jews. Scribe is the name of an office; Pharisee the name of. sect. They were both...