And so I tell you. Read Luke 11:49-51. I will send. Even after the Cross, God sent the apostles and evangelists [preachers of the Good News] to offer them a chance to repent. But the Jewish leaders did just what Jesus said they would do.
Verse 34. _WHEREFORE_] To show how my prediction, _Ye will fill_ _up the measure of your fathers_, shall be verified, _Behold, I send_ (I am just going to commission them) _prophets_, c. _and some ye...
I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS ... - Jesus doubtless refers here to the apostles, and other teachers of religion. Prophets, wise men, and scribes were the names by which the teachers of religion were known...
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...
A LAST WARNING. With Matthew 23:33 _cf._ the Baptist's words, Matthew 3:7. Matthew 23:34. Luke 11:49 *....
Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you erect the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the memorials of the righteous, and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not h...
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...
WHEREFORE. Because of this. Greek. _dia_ (App-104.Matthew 23:2; Matthew 23:2) _touto._ BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. FROM. away from. Greek. _apo_. App-104....
_I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes_ Marking the continuity of the Christian with the Jewish Church. _ye shall kill and crucify_ Kill, directly as Stephen (Acts 7:59), indirectly as J...
ἈΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ … ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΣ ΚΑῚ ΣΟΦΟῪΣ ΚΑῚ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕῚΣ. Marking the continuity of the Christian with the Jewish Church. ἈΠΟΚΤΕΝΕΙ͂ΤΕ ΚΑῚ ΣΤΑΥΡΏΣΕΤΕ. Kill, directly as Stephen (Acts 7:59), indirectly as James...
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....
2. "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? [p. 791] 34. Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise m...
_WEEPING OVER THE CITY OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 23:34-39:_ God had done much to lead the Jews religiously. He sent prophets, wise men and scribes. The Jews rejected God's way and God's men. "Some of them...
ΔΙΆ ΤΟΎΤΟ поэтому. Эти слова указывают на действие, которое предпримет Иисус; из-за того что Он был принят плохо, будут и еще посланники, но в конце концов исчерпается мера беззакония и последует суд...
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...
WHEREFORE— Δια τουτο, _"for this cause_—that ye are _serpents,_ and a _brood of vipers,_ who will fill up the measure of your fathers' iniquities." Our Saviour's meaning was, not that he would send th...
TEXT: 23:29-36 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, 30 and say, If we had been in the days of our fa...
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city...
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...
I SEND UNTO YOU] The parallel in St. Luke (which see) has 'Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets,' etc. The prophets, etc., are the apostles, prophets, teachers, evange...
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...
BEHOLD, I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS. — In the parallel passage of Luke 11:49 these words are introduced by the statement, “Therefore said the wisdom of God,” which has led some to see in them a quotation...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
_Peroration_ (Luke 11:49-51)....
διὰ τοῦτο. The sense requires that this be connected with both Matthew 23:32-33. The idea is that all God's dealings with Israel have been arranged from the first so as to ensure that the generation a...
JUDGMENT AND LAMENT Matthew 23:27-39 True goodness recognizes and rewards good in the living; while the evil-minded cannot, or will not, believe that the people whom they meet daily are purely and si...
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...
(10) Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them]...
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...
"Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city...
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...
_THE CHRISTIAN IN THE WORLD_ ‘Behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify.’ Matthew 23:34 This passage occurs in the Gospel for St. Steph...
34._Therefore, lo, I send to you. Luke _introduces it in a still more emphatic manner, _Wherefore also the Wisdom of God hath said; _which some commentators explain thus: “I, who am the eternal _Wisdo...
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...
WHEREFORE, BEHOLD I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS,.... To try them, whether they would show the respect to prophets, they pretended to have for them; by building and beautifying their sepulchres; by exclaimi...
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and _some_ of them ye shall kill and crucify; and _some_ of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute _them_ from...
Mat. 23:34, 35. "Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute...
_Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers' wickedness_ Ye may now be as wicked as they: a word of permission, not of command: as if he had said, I contend with you no longer: I leave you to yoursel...
PROPHETS; his apostles and other teachers of his religion. Acts 5:17; Acts 5:40; Acts 7:59. The most awful denunciations of divine wrath against the wicked are perfectly consistent with the greatest k...
>WHEREFORE, BEHOLD, I SEND UNTO YOU PROPHETS AND WISE MEN AND SCRIBES; AND SOME OF THEM YE SHALL KILL AND CRUCIFY, AND SOME OF THEM YE SHALL SCOURGE IN YOUR SYNAGOGUES, AND PERSECUTE THEM FROM CITY TO...
THE PERORATION AND THE LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM....
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...
34-39 Our Lord declares the miseries the inhabitants of Jerusalem were about to bring upon themselves, but he does not notice the sufferings he was to undergo. A hen gathering her chickens under her...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:36"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And He called His disciples "scribes" and "teachers of the kingdom of heaven; "of whom also He elsewhere says to the Jews: "Behold, I send unto you wise men, and scr...
Matthew 23:34 Therefore G1223 G5124 indeed G2400 (G5628) I G1473 send G649 (G5719) G4314 you...
JESUS INFORMS THEM OF WHAT THEIR FUTURE WILL BE (23:34-36). Having warned the crowds and the disciples against being like the Scribes and Pharisees in their behaviour, ending with an exhortation to hu...
“Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,” J...
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...
Matthew 23:34. THEREFORE BEHOLD I SEND UNTO YOU. Comp. Luke 11:49. ‘Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them,' Here Christ, having already spoken as Judge, says, ‘I send.' He is ‘the wi...
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...
SEND UNTO YOU The Jews' treatment of the apostles is proved, (Matthew 23:31)....
Matthew 23:29. _Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fat...
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...
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....
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 23:29. BUILD THE TOMBS, ETC.—See R.V. A portion of the temple offerings were devoted to this purpose. Matthew 23:31. THE CHILDREN.—You inherit their wickedness in compassing...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:16;...
Wherefore — That it may appear you are the true children of those murderers, and have a right to have their iniquities visited on you: Behold, I send — Is not this speaking as one having authority? Pr...
Did Jesus make a mistake in referring to Zechariah the son of Jehoiada rather than to Zechariah the son of Berechiah? PROBLEM: Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees that the guilt of all the righteo...
Observe here,. prophetical prediction, and. severe denunciation. 1. prediction foretelling what cruel usage the apostle should meet with from the Jews, killing and crucifying some, scourging and stoni...