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Verse Matthew 23:28. _EVEN SO YE ALSO - APPEAR RIGHTEOUS UNTO MEN_]
But what will this appearance avail a man, when God sits in judgment
upon his soul? Will the fair reputation which he had acquired...
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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...
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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...
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"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees! for you are like white-washed
tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the
bones of dead men, and of all corruption. So you, too, outwar...
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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...
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INIQUITY. lawlessness. App-128....
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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....
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VER 27. "WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE ARE
LIKE UNTO WHITED SEPULCHRES, WHICH INDEED APPEAR BEAUTIFUL OUTWARD,
BUT ARE WITHIN FULL OF DEAD MEN'S BONES, AND OF ALL UNCLEANNESS...
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_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...
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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...
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YE ARE LIKE UNTO WHITED SEPULCHRES— 7. The se_venth_ woe is
denounced for the excess of their hypocrisy. By their care of external
appearances, the Pharisees and Scribes made a fair shew, and deceived...
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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,...
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Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye
are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. EVEN SO YE ALSO OUTWARDLY APPEAR
RIGHTEOUS UNTO MEN, BUT WITHIN YE ARE FULL OF HYPOCRISY AND INI...
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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...
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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...
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Alexander Jannæus, the Maccabean king of the Jews (Matthew 104-78
b.c.), gave utterance to a very similar sentiment. On his deathbed he
warned his wife to 'take heed of painted men, pretending to be
P...
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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),...
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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...
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6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1
CHAPTER 17
Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
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_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...
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οὕτω, etc.: the figure apposite on both sides; the Pharisaic
character apparently saintly; really inwardly, full of godlessness and
immorality (ἀνομίας), the result being gross systematic
hypocrisy....
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_Sixth woe_, referring to no special Pharisaic vice, but giving a
graphic picture of their hypocrisy in general (_cf._ Luke 11:44)....
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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...
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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...
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Jesus Christ so often and so boldly condemns the Pharisees, because he
reads their hearts and intentions; but we, who can only judge of overt
actions, who cannot dive into the secrets of the heart, mu...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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EVEN SO YE ALSO OUTWARDLY APPEAR RIGHTEOUS,.... By making broad their
phylacteries, enlarging the borders of their garments, praying long
prayers, compassing sea and land to make one proselyte, paying...
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Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are
full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Ver. 28. _But within ye are full, &c._] Fair professors they were,
but foul sinners, not close,...
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EVEN SO YE ALSO OUTWARDLY APPEAR RIGHTEOUS UNTO MEN, BUT WITHIN YE ARE
FULL OF HYPOCRISY AND INIQUITY.
It was a custom among the Jews, derived by the Rabbis from Ezekiel
39:15, and said to extend back...
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The seventh woe:...
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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...
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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...
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Ver. 27,28. The similitude is of the same import with the other, to
show that the Pharisees had only a vizard of strictness and holiness,
when in the mean time their hearts were full of lusts, hypocri...
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Matthew 23:28 so G3779 you G5210 also G2532 G3303 outwardly G1855
appear G5316 (G5743) righteous G1342 men...
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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like
whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are
full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you als...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Matthew 23:28. BUT INWARDLY YE ARE FULL OF HYPOCRISY AND INIQUITY.
‘Your heart is not a temple of the living God, but a grave of
pestilent corruption: not a heaven, but a hell. And your religion is
bu...
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INIQUITY
Literally, Lawlessness.
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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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,...
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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...
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_27-28._ YOU ARE LIKE WHITEWASHED TOMBS. Just before the time of
Passover, all the tombs and graves were whitewashed so no one would be
made ritually unclean by touching one of them (Numbers 19:16), a...
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_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...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:27 _Sixth woe: whitewashed tombs._ The
Pharisees were like TOMBS, which in Jesus’ day could be OUTWARDLY
very BEAUTIFUL but...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 16:7; Hebrews 4:12; Hebrews 4:13; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah
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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...