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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:13-33

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 the Scribes and Pharisees as they stood bristling among the crowds in the Temple. They were members of a very excitable and fervent people living at a very excitable and fervent time and attending a very excitable and fervent feast, and we can be sure therefore that they would begin to defend... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:16-17

“Woe/alas to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.’ You fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which has sanctified the gold?” Jesus is so moved by the idea of how they are turning both Jews and Gentiles from the truth that He changes His description from ‘hypocrites’ to ‘blind guides’, and He gives an example of the way in which they take men’s minds off the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:16-22

Their Failure To Discern What Is Truly Holy (23:16-22). Their next condemnation lies in the fact that they lay greater emphasis on their own gifts and offerings than they do on the God-provided and thus ‘holy’ means of approach to Himself. They emphasise their own works rather than God’s provision. Thus instead of ‘seeing God’ their eyes are filled with their own religious activity. Analysis. a “Woe/alas to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:13-32

Matthew 23:13-Jonah : . 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 fourth is transitional.”— i.-iii. The Scribes refused to accept the preaching of Jesus, and deterred others from accepting it ( Matthew 23:13; cf. Luke 11:52). While they are thus eager to prevent Jews from becoming Christians, they are keen to make converts either from... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 23:16-22

Our Saviour here showeth the false doctrine which the Pharisees, for their own gain, taught the people concerning oaths. God had commanded that they should fear and serve the Lord their God, and swear by his name, Deuteronomy 6:13; Deuteronomy 10:20. He that sweareth by any person, or thing, doth two things: 1. He attributes to the thing, or person, by which he sweareth, a knowledge of the heart and the secret intention. 2. He calleth upon the person, or thing, by which he sweareth, to be his... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 23:16-28

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 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 and Pharisees ascribed peculiar sanctity (Mansel). See R.V., margin.Matthew 23:18. Guilty.—A debtor (R.V.) as in Matthew 23:16.Matthew 23:23. Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.—The language of Deuteronomy 12:17 seems to recognise only corn, wine, and oil, among the produce of the earth, as... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Matthew 23:16

debtor Or, bound; also Matthew 23:18. "guilty:" read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 23:1-39

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. And then Jesus finally asked them a question. "What do you think of Christ, whose son is He?" And when they said, "the son of David." He said, "How can He be the son of David, when David by the spirit called Him Lord?" And no father would ever call his son "lord". That's just so totally against the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 23:1-39

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 president: he sat in the middle, with thirty five chairs on his right hand, and thirty five on his left. The number had its origin from the seventy elders consecrated by Moses. Whether our Lord meant to say that the scribes and pharisees were fairly put into power, or that they had usurped authority, is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 23:16-22

Matthew 23:16-22Whosoever shall swear by the Temple, it is nothing. Thoughtless profanityAre there any before me who are accustomed to use God’s name as an expletive, and to bandy it as a byword? Who employ it in all kinds of conversation, and throw it about in every place? Perhaps in their hearts they consider this an accomplishment! think it manly and brave to swear! Let me say, then, that profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. I care not what his stamp ,nay be... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:13-33

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:16-17

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:16-22

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:13-32

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 23:16-22

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 23:16-28

Scofield's Reference Notes - Matthew 23:16

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 23:1-39

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 23:1-39

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 23:16-22

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