That the outside of them may be clean also. — The implied premise is that “uncleanness” in its ethical sense was altogether distinct from the outward uncleanness with which the Pharisees identified it. If the contents of the cup were pure in their source and in their use, they made the outside “clean,” irrespective of any process of surface purification.
MATTHEW 23:26 tou/ pothri,ou … to. evkto.j auvtou/ {D} The weight of the external evidence appears to support the longer text. At the same time the presence of auvtou/ (instead of auvtw/n) in B* ¦13...
CLEANSE FIRST THAT WHICH IS WITHIN THE CUP AND THE PLATTER - Let them be filled with the fruits of honest industry, and then the outside and the inside will be really “clean.” By this allusion to the...
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...
SEVEN WOES. Seven is a sacred number and often used in Mt., as in OT (_cf._ especially Isaiah 5) and _Rev._ The first three treat of Pharisaic teaching, the last three of Pharisaic character, the four...
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...
"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of rapacity and lust. Blind Pharisee! cleanse the inside of the cup and...
THAT WHICH IS WITHIN. the inside of. BE. become. CLEAN ALSO. The "also" must be connected with outside: "that the outside also may become clean"....
_that which is within the cup_ Rather, THE INSIDE OF THE CUP. Cp. Mark 7:4....
ΦΑΡΙΣΑΙ͂Ε ΤΥΦΛΈ. The change to the singular number indicates a personal and individual self-examination. ΤΥΦΛΈ. Schöttgen notes that certain among the Pharisees veiled their faces in order that no gli...
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 25. "WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE MAKE CLEAN THE OUTSIDE OF THE CUP AND OF THE PLATTER, BUT WITHIN THEY ARE FULL OF EXTORTION AND EXCESS. 26. THOU BLIND PHARISEE, CLEANS...
_MORE WOES FOR THE SCRIBES, PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES MATTHEW 23:25-33:_ The scribes and Pharisees were not clean on the inside, in their heart, where it mattered. They were religiously beautiful on the o...
ΚΑΘΆΡΙΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΚΑΘΑPI ΖΩ (G2511) очищать. _Aor. imper._ указывает на специфическое действие, ΈΝΤΌΣ (G1787) внутри, ΈΚΤΌΣ (G1622) снаружи. Об этом фрагменте _см._ Carson, 481-82....
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...
TEXT: 23:25-28 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee,...
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. THOU BLIND PHARISEE, CLEANSE FIRST THAT WHICH IS WITHIN THE CUP AND PLATTER,...
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...
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),...
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...
CLEANSE FIRST THAT] i.e. first earn your meat and drink by honest labour, not by extortion, then your cups and dishes will be clean in God's sight....
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...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
_The seven woes_. There are eight, if we count that in Matthew 23:13 of T. R., but as this ver. is omitted in the best MSS. and appears to be a gloss from Mk. and Lk. I do not count it. _Vide_ notes o...
φαρισαῖε τυφλέ : change from plural to singular with increased earnestness, and a certain friendliness of tone, as of one who would gladly induce the person addressed to mend his ways. καθάρισον : if...
_Fifth woe_, directed against externalism (Luke 11:39-41). τῆς παροψίδος, the dish, on which viands were served. In classics it meant the meat, not the dish (τὸ ὄψον οὐχὶ δὲ τὸ ἀγγεῖον, Phryn., p. 176...
WOES FOR THE FALSE-HEARTED Matthew 23:13-26 These repeated woes may be translated, _Alas for you!_ Our Lord with unfailing accuracy indicates the inevitable doom which such conduct as that of the Pha...
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...
Thou blind Pharisee. The vices of the Scribes and Pharisees are not frequently to be found in Christians. The genuine characters of the pharisaical and hypocritical spirit, are: 1. to be punctiliously...
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...
"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. (14) Woe unt...
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...
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...
THOU BLIND PHARISEE,.... Well might Christ call such an one a blind Pharisee, who was so scrupulously careful to cleanse his cup and platter; and yet made no conscience of filling them with what was g...
_Thou_ blind Pharisee, cleanse first that _which is_ within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Ver. 26. _Cleanse first that which is within_] God loveth truth in the inw...
_Wo unto you, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup_, &c. This is the sixth wo. They were at great pains to appear virtuous, and to have a decent external conduct, while they neglected...
The sixth woe:...
THOU BLIND PHARISEE, CLEANSE FIRST THAT WHICH IS WITHIN THE CUP AND PLATTER, THAT THE OUTSIDE OF THEM MAY BE CLEAN ALSO. A picture taken from the well-known strictness of the Pharisees in the matter o...
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...
13-33 The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ, and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others f...
Luke hath this, LUKE 11:39,40, as occasioned by the Pharisees wondering that he washed not before dinner; instead of _extortion and excess, _ he hath _ravening and wickedness, _ and addeth, _Ye fools,...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Now what else is it to "be at rest" than to forego purposed violence? And saying similar things to these men, He declares: "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse that which i...
Matthew 23:26 Blind G5185 Pharisee G5330 first G4412 cleanse G2511 (G5657) inside G1787 cup G4221 and G2532 dish
“You blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the bowl, that the outside of it may become clean also.” But what they should have done was first ensure that the inside was clean. The...
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 FACES THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES UP TO THEIR HYPOCRISY (23:13-33). It will be quite clear that the words which Jesus has spoken to His disciples and the crowds could hardly have failed to rile th...
TWO EXAMPLES OF THE WAY IN WHICH THEY PUT ON A SHOW BUT DO NOT DEAL WITH WHAT IS UNACCEPTABLE UNDERNEATH (23:25-28). Having demonstrated that justice, mercy and compassion, and faithfulness was to enj...
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 23:26. THOU BLIND PHARISEE. ‘Blind,' failing to see that the great matter should come first. CLEANSE FIRST. Begin with inward purity. THAT THE OUTSIDE THEREOF MAY BECOME CLEAN ALSO. Outwar...
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...
YOU CLEAN THE OUTSIDE. They had a ritual for washing the outside of cups and plates, and they would not eat or drink from anything that had not been prepared in this way. CLEAN WHAT IS INSIDE THE CUP...
_For ye make clean the outside of the cup._ MORAL ABLUTION By this allusion to the cup and platter the Saviour taught that it is necessary to cleanse the heart first, that the external conduct might...
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....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:26 _Fifth woe: clean outside, filthy inside._ CLEAN THE INSIDE. While seeking external purity, the Pharisees were blind to the corrupt internal condition of their hearts....
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 23:16. GOLD OF THE TEMPLE.—The exact meaning of this expression is uncertain; but the probability is that it refers to money offered as a gift to God, to which the scribes an...
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 7:1; Ezekiel 18:31; Hebrews 10:22; Isaiah 55:7; James 4:
A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN Matthew 23:23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "A double minded man is unstable in all his days." We have in Matthew 23:1, a striking illustration of these words. 1. WE HAVE PIETY as A PRETEN...
Ye build the tombs of the prophets — And that is all, for ye neither observe their sayings, nor imitate their actions....