Matthew 23:10. Leaders. Higher than ‘Rabbi,' leaders of sects, etc.
For one is your leader, even the Christ. Hence the disciples were and ought to be called Christians, not by any human name (comp. 1 Corinthians 1:12). As Matthew 23:9-10 refer distinctly to the Father and the Son, some have referred Matthew 23:8 to the Holy Ghost; in order to find here a hint of the Trinity. A possible, but improbable, interpretation.
Verse Matthew 23:10. _NEITHER BE YE CALLED MASTERS_] καθηγηται, _leaders_. God is in all these respects jealous of his honour. To him alone it belongs to guide and _lead_ his Church, as well as to go...
NEITHER BE YE CALLED MASTERS - That is, leaders, guides, for this is the literal meaning of the word. It refers to those who go before others; who claim, therefore, the right to direct and control oth...
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...
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...
They perform all their actions to be seen by men. They broaden their phylacteries; they wear outsize tassels. They love the highest places at meals, and the front seats in the synagogues, and greeting...
_masters_ Rather, LEADERS, GUIDES, it is not the same word as in Matthew 23:8....
ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΉΣ. ‘A guide,’ then a dignified name for ‘a teacher,’ used in this sense by Plutarch of one who did not care to be called a παιδαγωγός and so adopted the more high-sounding title of καθηγητής·...
THE CONTRAST OF CHRISTIAN CONDUCT...
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 5. "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6. And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats...
_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...
ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΑΊ _пот. pl. от_ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΉΣ (G2519) наставник, инструктор, учитель; используется как синоним ΔΙΔΆΣΚΑΛΟΣ (LN, 1:416; Carson, 476)....
BUT BE NOT YE CALLED RABBI— The Apostles of Christ were to be very different, both in temper and conduct, from the Jewish teachers. They were to decline being called _Rabbi,_ because the thing signifi...
TEXT: 23:5-12 5 But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders _of their garments,_ and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief se...
Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. NEITHER BE YE CALLED MASTERS: FOR ONE IS YOUR MASTER, EVEN CHRIST. To construe these injunctions into a condemnation of every titl...
23:10 instructors, (d-4) instructor, (d-9) Or 'guide,' 'guides.'...
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...
NEITHER BE YE CALLED MASTERS. — The word is not the same as in Matthew 23:8, and signifies “guide,” or “leader;” the “director” of conscience rather than the teacher. (Comp. Romans 2:19.)...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
καθηγηταί, kindred with ὁδηγοὶ (Matthew 23:16), guides, leaders in thought, desiring abject discipleship from followers. _Gradatio: Rabbi, pater, ductor_, Beng. The threefold counsel shows the intense...
_Introduction to the discourse_....
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...
Neither be ye called (k) masters: for one is your Master, [even] Christ. (k) It seems that the scribes hunted very greatly after such titles, these scribes being the ones whom he called blind guides...
Call none your father... Neither be ye called masters, &c. The meaning is, that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master is to be followed, w...
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...
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...
10._For one is your Master, even Christ. _He repeats a second time the former statement about Christ’s office as _Master, _in order to inform us that the lawful order is, that God alone rule over us,...
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...
NEITHER BE YE CALLED MASTERS,.... Or guides and leaders; not but that, the ministers of the word are in a sense such; it is their business to lead and direct souls to Christ, to guide their feet in th...
Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, _even_ Christ. Ver. 10. _One is your Master_] Where then are _magistri nostri parisienses?_ our _doctores resolutissimi?_ our masters of opinions...
_Be not ye called rabbi_ Do not affect those titles of reverence and respect which give too much honour or authority to man. The Jewish doctors were called _rabbis, fathers_, and _masters_, by their s...
MASTERS; as leaders and controllers of Christ's ministers and people....
Humility required:...
NEITHER BE YE CALLED MASTERS; FOR ONE IS YOUR MASTER, EVEN CHRIST....
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...
Ver. 8-10. It is most certain that our Saviour doth not here forbid the giving of the titles of masters and fathers to his ministers, for then Paul would not have given himself the title of father, 1...
Matthew 23:10 not G3366 called G2564 (G5686) teachers G2519 for G1063 One G1520 is G2076 (G5748) your...
a “But as for you, do not you be called Rabbi, b For one is your teacher (didaskalos), and all you are brothers. c And call no man your father on the earth, d For one is your Father, even he who is...
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...
MASTERS (καθηγητα). This word occurs here only in the N.T. It is found in the papyri for teacher (Latin, _doctor_). It is the modern Greek word for professor. "While διδασκαλος represents Ραβ, καθη...
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...
AND YOU MUST NOT CALL ANYONE HERE ON EARTH FATHER.' That is, "Father" as a religious title. The teachers of the Law loved to be called _Abba_ which means "Father," _in the sense_ in which God alone is...
_But be not ye called Rabbi._ CHRISTIANS ARE BRETHREN The late Rev. Wm. Jay, in a sermon at Surrey Chapel, said “Some time ago a countryman observed to me, ‘I was exceedingly alarmed this morning, si...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:8 NOT TO BE CALLED RABBI,... CALL NO MAN YOUR FATHER.... NEITHER BE CALLED INSTRUCTORS. Jesus does not forbid use of titles such as “teacher,” “doctor,” or “father” for all...
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...
Matthew 23:10...
Masters [κ α θ η γ η τ α ι]. Lit., leaders....
Is it wrong to call others our father? PROBLEM: Here Jesus commanded: “Do not call anyone on earth your father.” Yet elsewhere the Bible not only tells us “honor your father and mother” (Exodus 20:12)...