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Matthew 23:24

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

And that His disciples must suffer for His sake, He [implied when He] said to the Jews, "Behold, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify."[344]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

He shall also judge those who give rise to schisms, who are destitute of the love of God, and who look to their own special advantage rather than to the unity of the Church; and who for trifling reasons, or any kind of reason which occurs to them, cut in pieces and divide the great and glorious body of Christ, and so far as in them lies, [positively] destroy it,-men who prate of peace while they give rise to war, and do in truth strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel.[483]

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Matthew 23:24. _BLIND GUIDES, WHICH STRAIN AT A GNAT, AND SWALLOW A_ _CAMEL._] This clause should be thus translated: Ye strain out the gnat, but ye swallow down the camel. In the common transl...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH STRAIN AT A GNAT ... - This is a proverb. There is, however, a mistranslation or misprint here, which makes the verse unmeaning. “To strain” at a “gnat” conveys no sense. It should have been to...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint, and dill, and cummin, and let go the weightier matters of the Law--justice and mercy and fidelity. These you ought to have done wi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHICH, &C. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6. STRAIN. habitually filter out. Greek. _diulizo._ Occ- only here. AT.. mistake perpetuated in all editions of the Authorized Version. All "the former tr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _strain out a gnat_ A correction for the reading of E. V. "strain _at_a gnat;" the reading in the text appears in the earlier editions of the English Bible from Tyndale to Bishops" Bible. See Cambridg...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΔΙΫΛΊΖΟΝΤΕΣ. Wetstein quotes from Galen: εἶτα ἄρας�. The sense of contrast and the humour of the illustration are brought out by the antithetic position of the words. In the first respect the illustra...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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....

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 23. "WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE PAY TITHE OF MINT AND ANISE AND CUMMIN, AND HAVE OMITTED THE WEIGHTIER MATTERS OF THE LAW, JUDGMENT, MERCY, AND FAITH: THESE OUGHT YE T...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _WOE TO YOU SCRIBES, PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES MATTHEW 23:13-24:_ Woes were pronounced because the Pharisees would not enter the kingdom themselves and hindered those that would enter. (Matthew 23:13) The...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΔΙΥΛΊΖΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΔΙΥΛΊΖΩ (G461) удалять путем процеживания сквозь что-л. (RWP). Обратите внимание на использование прист. со _знач._ "сквозь" с гл.; _см._ МН, 300f. Part, используетс...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YE PAY TITHE, &C.— 5. The _fifth_ woe is denounced for their superstition. They observed the ceremonial precepts of the law with all possible exactness, while they utterly neglected the eternal, immut...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT: 23:23, 24 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but t...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. YE BLIND GUIDES, WHICH STRAIN AT A GNAT. The proper rendering-as in the older English translations, and perhaps our own as it came from...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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),...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A proverb meaning that the scribes scrupulously avoid insignificant breaches of the Law, while continually breaking its great commandments. STRAIN AT A GNAT] RV 'strain out a gnat,' viz. out of the wi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    STRAIN AT A GNAT. — Better, as in Tyndale’s and other earlier versions, _strain out._ It is sometimes said that the present rendering of the Authorised version is but the perpetuation of a printer’s b...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    διϋλίζοντες (διὰ and ὕλη, Passow), a little used word, for which Hesychius gives as a synonym, διηθέω, to strain through. τὸν κώνωπα, τὴν κάμηλον, _the_ gnat, _the_ camel: article as usual in proverbi...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The fourth woe_ refers to tithe-paying (Luke 11:42). ἀποδεκατοῦτε : a Hellenistic word = ye pay tithes, as in Genesis 28:22; to take tithes from in Hebrews 7:5-6. ἡδύοσμον, ἄνηθον, κύμινον : garden h...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    24._Blind guides. _This is s proverbial saying, by which he beautifully describes the affected scrupulousness of hypocrites about trifling matters; for they utterly shrink from very small faults, as i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YE BLIND GUIDES,.... As in Matthew 23:16 WHO STRAIN AT A GNAT AND SWALLOW A CAMEL: the Syriac and Persic versions read the words in the plural number, gnats and camels. The Jews had a law, which forb...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Ye_ blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Ver. 24. _Which strain at a gnat, &c._] A proverbial speech, warranting the lawful use of such expressions for illustration of a truth....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Wo unto you, for ye pay tithe_, &c. Here we have the fifth wo, which is denounced for their superstition. They observed the ceremonial precepts of the law with all possible exactness, while they utte...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    STRAIN AT A GNAT; strain the liquid which you drink at the presence of a gnat in it, lest you should be made unclean by swallowing it. They reckoned the gnat among the unclean creeping things. Levitic...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Another instance of the religious observance of insignificant things. So strictly did they interpret the law of tithes, Leviticus 27:30, t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The fifth woe:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is a proverbial expression used amongst them, against such as would pretend a great niceness and scrupulosity about, and zeal for, little things, but in matters of much higher concern and moment we...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 23:24 Blind G5185 guides G3595 out G1368 (G5723) gnat G2971 and G1161 swallow G2666 (G5723) camel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEIR FAILURE TO OBSERVE THE MORE IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE LAW BECAUSE OF THEIR CONCENTRATION ON THE DETAIL (23:23-24). Analysis. a “Woe/alas to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “You blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!” He summarises their position by a huge contrast. The gnat (qamla) was one of the smallest of creatures, the camel (gamla) the larges...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 23:24. STRAIN OUT THE GNAT, _i.e.,_ to filter wine, so as to avoid swallowing a gnat. The common version may have been intended to express this, but more probably contains a misprint. The sayi...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    STRAIN OUT THE GNAT (διυλιζοντες τον κωνωπα). By filtering through (δια), not the "straining at" in swallowing so crudely suggested by the misprint in the A.V.SWALLOW THE CAMEL (την δε καμηλον κατ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    YOU STRAIN A FLY OUT OF YOUR DRINK. _Satire._ Jesus had a sense of humor. Can you imagine them straining out the fly, and then swallowing the camel! This illustrates Matthew 23:23....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And have omitted the weightier matters of the law._ SINS OF OMISSION 1. The very earliest cause of nearly all sin lies in omitting something which we ought to have done. Perhaps you left your room...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:24 STRAINING OUT A GNAT. The rabbis strained wine to remove any small, unclean insects (Leviticus 11:23,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    John 18:28; John 18:40; Luke 6:7; Matthew 15:2; Matthew 19:24;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Strain at [δ ι υ λ ι ζ ο ν τ ε ς]. dia, thoroughly or through, and uJlizw, to filter or strain. Strain at is an old misprint perpetuated. Hence the Rev. correctly, as Tynd., strain out. Insects were c...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye blind guides, who teach others to do as you do yourselves, to strain out a gnat — From the liquor they are going to drink! and swallow a camel — It is strange, that glaring false print, strain at a...

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