Shall not see me hence forth; our Lord was now closing his personal ministry on earth. After his resurrection he showed himself not to all the people, but to chosen witnesses. Acts 10:41. They should never again enjoy his presence, till they were ready to receive him as their Messiah.
Verse Matthew 23:39. _YE SHALL NOT SEE ME_] I will remove my Gospel from you, and withdraw my protection. _TILL YE SHALL SAY, BLESSED_] Till after the fulness of the Gentiles is brought in, when the...
YE SHALL NOT SEE ME ... - The day of your mercy is gone by. I have offered you protection and salvation, and you have rejected it. You are about to crucify me, and your temple to be destroyed, and you...
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...
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...
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...
"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....
NOT. by no means, in no wise. Greek. _ou me,_ App-105. SEE. behold. App-133. TILL. With _an,_ implying uncertainty. The _not seeing_ was certain: their _saying_ it at that time was uncertain. Compare...
_For_explains "desolate" of Matthew 23:38. The Temple is desolate, for Christ, who is the Lord of the Temple, leaves it for ever. _till ye shall say_ Till, like the children in these Temple-courts, ye...
ΓᾺΡ explains ἔρημος of Matthew 23:38. The Temple is desolate, for Christ, who is the Lord of the Temple, leaves it for ever. ἝΩΣ ἊΝ ΕἼΠΗΤΕ. Till, like the children in these Temple-courts, ye recognise...
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM...
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...
_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...
ΪΔΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. _Conj._ используется в предсказании с эмфатич. отр. ΟΎ ΜΉ. (VA, 429). ΕΊΠΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΕΎΛΟΓΗΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. par...
HENCEFORTH— Απ αρτι, _hereafter._ "Because you have killed the prophets, and endeavoured to stone me, whom the Father hath sent unto you; because your great men are at this moment plotting against me,...
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...
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. FOR I SAY UNTO YOU - and these were His last words to the impenitent natio...
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...
23:39 wise (f-10) A strengthened negative. say, (g-16) Psalms 118:26 . Lord. (h-27) Without an article, for 'Jehovah.'...
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),...
TILL YE SHALL SAY, BLESSED _is_ HE, etc.] i.e. either, (1) till the Second Advent, when they will see Christ as judge, and will unwillingly say 'Blessed is He that cometh,' or, (2) till the conversion...
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...
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...
TILL YE SHALL SAY. — There is obviously a reference to the fact that the words quoted from Psalms 118:26, had been uttered by the crowd but a few days before on His solemn entry into Jerusalem. Not ti...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
ἀπʼ ἄρτι, from this moment, Christ's prophetic work done now: it remains only to die. ἕως ἂν εἴπητε : a future contingency on which it depends whether they shall ever see Him again (Weiss in Meyer). H...
_Apostrophe to the Holy City_ (Luke 13:34). Εἶτα πρὸς τὴν πόλιν ἀποστρέφει τὸν λόγον. Chrys., H. lxxiv....
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...
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...
Till you say, blessed is he that cometh. Hereafter you shall own me for your Messias, and the world's Redeemer, at least at the day of judgment. (Witham) --- The time here foretold, when they should s...
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...
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...
REFLECTIONS Pause Reader! pause my soul, over the contents of this Chapter. Surely nothing can be more solemn, nothing more affecting. Behold the Son of God, who came to seek and save that which was l...
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...
39._For I tell you. _He confirms what he had said about the approaching vengeance of God, by saying that the only method of avoiding destruction will be taken from them. For that was _the accepted tim...
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...
FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, YE SHALL NOT SEE ME HENCEFORTH,.... Meaning in a very little time after the passover, from the time of his crucifixion and death; otherwise they saw him many times after this, as i...
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed _is_ he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Ver. 39. _Till ye shall say, Blessed, &c._] That is, ye shall never see me,...
_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...
The lament:...
FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, YE SHALL NOT SEE ME HENCEFORTH TILL YE SHALL SAY, BLESSED IS HE THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! A most touching cry of merciful solicitude, wrung from a heart full of the Savi...
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...
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...
We have the same LUKE 13:34,35. _O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!_ The doubling of the word showeth the vehemency of our Saviour's affection. _Thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent un...
Matthew 23:39 for G1063 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 see G1492 (G5632) Me G3165 more G3364...
“For I say to you, You shall not see me from now on, until you shall say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' ” And the people would never see Him again until their hearts were open to...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Matthew 23:39. YE SHALL NOT SEE ME HENCEFORTH. A solemn declaration of His withdrawal from His ministry among them. After this He taught only His own people. TILL YE SHALL SAY, etc. This refers to t...
TILL The three "untils" of Israel's blessing: (1) Israel must say, "blessed is He" (Matthew 23:39); (Romans 10:3); (Romans 10:4). (2) Gentile world-power must run its course. ...
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...
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...
UNTIL YOU SAY. Both a "curse" of doom, and a promise of hope! "Unbelief is a veil which closes their minds to Truth and Eternal Life. But that veil will vanish when they tum to Jesus (2 Corinthians 3:...
_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...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:39 As Jesus cites Psalms 118:26 (compare Matthew 21:9), he identifies himself as God’s Mes
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:37 JERUSALEM apparently refers to the whole nation of Israel. ⇐...
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 23:29. 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...
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 Corinthians 3:14; Hosea 3:4; Isaiah 40:9; John 14:19; John 14:9;...
Ye — Jews in general; men of Jerusalem in particular: shall not see me from this time — Which includes the short space till his death, till, after a long interval of desolation and misery, ye say, Ble...