Heavy burdens; grievous and troublesome ceremonies and observances which they required. They rigidly expounded certain parts of the divine law as binding on the people, while they themselves, secretly or openly, claimed a release from them.
MATTHEW 23:4 bare,a @kai. dusba,stakta# {C} Impressed by the weight of the external evidence supporting the longer text, a majority of the Committee explained the absence of kai. dusba,stakta in L ¦1...
Verse Matthew 23:4. _THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS_] They are _now_ so corrupt that they have added to the ceremonies of the law others of their own invention, which are not only burdensome and oppressive,...
THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS ... - This phrase is derived from the custom of loading animals. The load or burden is bound up and then laid on the beast. So the Pharisees appointed weighty burdens, or griev...
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...
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...
FOR THEY BIND, &C. By what they "bid you observe".. further proof that "observe and do" is not the Lord's command to carry these many burdens "grievous to be borne". ON. = upon. Greek. _epi._ MEN'S....
_they bind heavy burdens_ Impose the grievous enactments of the Law. Cp. "My yoke is easy and my burden is light" (ch. Matthew 11:30)....
καὶ δυσβάστακτα omitted after ΒΑΡΈΑ. The grounds of omission are not quite decisive. א (μεγάλα βαρέα) and L omit the words but BD and the majority of uncials and versions retain them. ΑΥ̓ΤΟῚ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ι...
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....
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....
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...
ΔΕΣΜΕΎΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΕΣΜΕΎΩ (G1195) связывать, привязывать, ΔΥΣΒΆΣΤΑΚΤΟΣ (G1419) неудобоносимый (об этом прочтении _см._ ТС, 59-60). ΈΠΙΤΙΘΈΑΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G2007)...
FOR THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS— It is well known that the Pharisees gloried in the exactness with which they obeyed the ceremonial part of the law. Nay, they carried matters so high, that, not content wi...
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...
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. FOR THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS AND GRIEVOUS TO...
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),...
Luke 11:46. BIND HEAVY BURDENS] a metaphor from overloading a beast of burden. The 'burdens,' which they 'bind into bundles,' are the intricate and troublesome observances which the scribes had added...
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...
HEAVY BURDENS. — The thought was involved in our Lord’s call to the “heavy laden,” in the words that spoke of His own “burden” as “light” (Matthew 11:28; Matthew 11:30). Here it finds distinct express...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
illustrates the previous statement. δεσμεύουσι, tc., they bind together, like sheaves, heavy backloads of rules. Think, _e.g._, of the innumerable rules for Sabbath observance similar to that prohibit...
_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...
(2) For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them with one of their fingers. (2) For the most part hypocrites most...
Heavy and insupportable burdens. Some understand in general the ceremonies of the law of Moses; but Christ seems rather here to mean the vain customs, tradition, and additions, introduced by the Jewis...
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...
4._For they bind heavy and intolerable burdens. _He does not charge the scribes with oppressing and tyrannizing over souls by harsh and unjust laws; for, though they had introduced many superfluous ce...
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 THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS,.... Meaning not the rites and ceremonies of the law of Moses, circumcision, and other rituals, which obliged to the keeping of the whole law, which was a yoke men were not...
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay _them_ on men's shoulders; but they _themselves_ will not move them with one of their fingers. Ver. 4. _For they bind heavy burdens, &c._...
_For they bind heavy burdens_ Not only insisting upon the most minute circumstances of the ceremonial law, called _a yoke, Acts 15:10_; and pressing the observation of them with more strictness and se...
FOR THEY BIND HEAVY BURDENS AND GRIEVOUS TO BE BORNE, AND LAY THEM ON MEN'S SHOULDERS; BUT THEY THEMSELVES WILL NOT MOVE THEM WITH ONE OF THEIR FINGERS. The evangelist has here recorded the most relen...
THE INORDINATE AMBITION OF THE PHARISEES. Hypocrisy in high places:...
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...
Our Saviour saith the same of the _lawyers,_ LUKE 11:46. The BURDENS here mentioned were not their traditions and ritual things, Christ would never have before commanded his disciples to observe and d...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI "[70]...
Matthew 23:4 For G1063 bind G1195 (G5719) heavy G926 burdens G5413 G2532 bear G1419 and G2532 lay...
a “And they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, b And lay them on the shoulders of men, a But they themselves will not move them with their finger.” For this is an expose of the Scribes and...
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...
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...
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 23:4. YEA THEY BIND, etc. They so presented the correct law as to make its precepts HEAVY BURDENS, like loads, packs on beasts of burden (comp. Acts 15:16). The reference is not simply to the...
WITH THEIR FINGER (τω δακτυλω αυτων). A picturesque proverb. They are taskmasters, not burden-bearers, not sympathetic helpers....
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...
THEY FIX UP HEAVY LOADS. The Law was itself a heavy load which no one could carry (Acts 15:10). But they added traditions to it to make it even heavier (Matthew 22:36). See Matthew 23:2....
_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...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:4 HEAVY BURDENS. See note on 11:28. ⇐...
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...
Acts 15:10; Acts 15:28; Galatians 6:13; Luke 11:46; Matthew 11:28;...
Luke 11:46....
These heavy burdens which the Pharisees laid upon the people's shoulders, were counsels and directions, rules and canons, austerities and severities, which the Pharisees introduced and imposed upon th...