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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Matthew 23:13-33

"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 unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. (15) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Matthew 23:16

Wo to you blind guides. Avarice seems to have been the chief motive of the Pharisees in teaching this doctrine, since they taught that those who swore by the temple were guilty of no sin, nor under any obligation at all; whereas they who swore by the gold of the temple, were bound to pay a certain sum of money to the priests, by which they themselves were enriched. (Nicholas de Lyra.) --- Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing, &c. To understand this obscure place, we may take... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:13-33

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 from him. Yet it is no new thing for the show and form of godliness to be made a cloak to the greatest enormities. But dissembled piety will be reckoned double iniquity. They were very busy to turn souls to be of their party. Not for the glory of God and the good of souls, but that they might have... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Matthew 23:1-99

Matthew 23 THIS CHAPTER RECORDS his burning words. In a few days the multitude, influenced by these men, would be shouting for His death. Their responsibility and guilt was greatly increased by this warning the Lord gave them as to the true character of their leaders. He began by according to them the place they claimed as the exponents of the law of Moses. Therefore the people were to keep and do the law as they heard it from their lips. Yet they were to carefully avoid taking them as... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Matthew 23:16-22

The fourth woe: v. 16. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the Temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the Temple, he is a debtor! v. 17. Ye fools and blind! For whether is greater, the gold, or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold? v. 18. And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. v. 19. Ye fools and blind! For whether is greater, the gift, or the altar... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Matthew 23:1-39

SEVENTH SECTIONFINAL JUDJEMENT OF CHRIST UPON THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES. CHRIST OF HIS OWN ACCORD LEAVES THE TEMPLE23–24:1( Matthew 23:34-39, Scripture Lesion for St. Stephen’s Day.)1Then spake Jesus to the multitude [multitudes, τοῖς ὄχλοις], and to his disciples,A. The Reproof generally. Matthew 23:2-7. (The law, Matthew 23:3; the inconsistency and falsehood, Matthew 23:3 : “but do not;” the traditional statutes, Matthew 23:4; the hypocritical sanctimoniousness and unholy ambition, Matthew... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 23:13-26

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 Pharisees and scribes must incur. He forewarned them that they could expect nothing in the dread future but the judgment of Gehenna-the metaphor being taken from the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where fires were kept burning to consume rubbish and refuse. Hypocrisy is hiding under a cloak of... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

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 awful in its majesty, terrible in its resistless force. With what relentless persistence and unfailing accuracy He revealed the true condition of the leaders of the people, their occupation with externalities and pettiness, and their neglect of inward facts and weightier matters. Here, indeed, if... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:1-25

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 has come to establish a new ‘congregation’ and a new ‘nation’ Jesus will now reveal what is to happen to the old nation that has rejected Him, and why. In chapter 23 He brings His severe indictment on ‘the Scribes and the Pharisees’. While His words appear to be fierce they are nothing less than we... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

Words in the Temple: Exhortation to His Disciples And Indictment of The Scribes and Pharisees (23:1-39). It is an open question as to whether chapter 23 should be seen as part of the ‘fifth dissertation’ made up of chapters 23-25 (see introduction), or whether it should be seen as a connecting passage between 19-22 and 24-25 made up of secondary dissertations on their own (compare chapter 11; Matthew 16:17-28 for similar dissertations). The fact that it forms a separate chiasmus on its own... read more

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Matthew 23:13-33

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Matthew 23:16

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:13-33

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Matthew 23:1-99

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Matthew 23:16-22

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Matthew 23:1-39

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 23:13-26

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:1-25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

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