Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 23:32
(u) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
(u) A proverb used by the Jews, which has this meaning: You go on also, and follow your ancestors, that at length your wickedness may come to its fulness.
(u) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
(u) A proverb used by the Jews, which has this meaning: You go on also, and follow your ancestors, that at length your wickedness may come to its fulness.
Verse 32. _FILL YE UP THEN_] Notwithstanding the profession you make, ye will fill up the measure of your fathers-will continue to walk in their way, accomplish the fulness of every evil purpose by mu...
FILL YE UP, THEN ... - This is a prediction of what they were about to do. He would have them act out their true spirit, and show what they were, and evince to all that they had the spirit of their fa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FILL YE UP. And ye, fill ye up....
ΚΑῚ nearly = ‘and so.’ See Dr Moulton’s note, Winer, p. 540, cp. Philippians 4:9; Philippians 4:12....
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...
_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...
ΠΛΗΡΏΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) наполнять, дополнять. "Исполните же руками то, что вы лелеете в сердце" (Bengel). ΜΈΤΡΟ Ν (G3358) _асс. sing. n._ мера. Имеется в виду, что Бог может то...
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...
FILL YE UP THEN THE MEASURE, &C.— That is, the measure of your fathers' sin, (the measure fixed upon by God for punishment.) See John 13:27. This expression implies, that there is a certain measure fi...
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...
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. FILL YE UP THEN THE MEASURE OF YOUR FATHERS....
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...
FILL YE UP THEN] i.e. 'Carry out your wickedness to the full, as your fathers did, by putting Me to death. You desire to do so, and I shall not hinder you.'...
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...
FILL YE UP THEN ... — The English fails to give the pathetic abruptness of the original: _And ye_ — _fill ye up the measure of your fathers._ The thought implied is that which we find in Genesis 15:16...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
καὶ, and, as ye have called yourselves their sons, so show yourselves to be such indeed (Weiss). πληρώσατε. The reading πληρώσετε is due to shrinking from the idea conveyed by the imperative. To the s...
_Final woe_ (Luke 11:47-48), dealing with yet another phase of hypocrisy and a new form of the contrast between without and within; apparent zeal for the honour of deceased prophets, real affinity wit...
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...
Jesus Christ does not here persuade the Jews to continue on in their wicked ways, as if praising and sanctioning their conduct; but only predicts his own death, which they were about to compass, and w...
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...
"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...
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...
32._Do you then fill up the measure of your fathers. _He at length concludes that they are not, in this respect, degenerate from their fathers; as if he had said, “It is not now that your nation begin...
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...
FILL YE UP THEN THE MEASURE OF YOUR FATHERS. Of their sins; for there were bounds and limits set how far they should proceed, and no further; as yet they had not got to the end of their iniquity: thei...
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ver. 32. _Fill ye up then the measure_] _Ironice dictum._ Ironic saying. It gives us to understand that sinners are stinted, and cannot do what mischief t...
_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...
MEASURE; the measure of their sins till wrath should come upon them....
FILL YE UP, THEN, THE MEASURE OF YOUR FATHERS....
The eighth woe:...
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...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:33"....
Matthew 23:32 up G4137 (G5657) G5210 then G2532 measure G3358 your G5216 fathers G3962 the measure -...
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...
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...
IN SPITE OF THEIR CLAIMS TO BE OTHERWISE THEY SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT THEY WERE SIMPLY AS BAD AS THEIR FATHERS (23:29-33). Along with their generation the Scribes and Pharisees made a great fuss about t...
“Thus you witness to yourselves, that you are sons of those who slew the prophets. Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.” Jesus then points out to them that by all this they are simply drawin...
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...
Matthew 23:32. FILL YE UP THEN. Not irony, but a terrible prediction, and a judicial consignment of them to their own ways. Every merciful means of influence had been used before this was spoken. To l...
FILL YE UP (πληρωσατε). The keenest irony in this command has been softened in some MSS. to the future indicative (πληρωσετε). "Fill up the measure of your fathers; crown their misdeeds by killing...
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...
GO ON, THEN. As if he says: "Complete what your ancestors started murder the Holy One." [This can also be symbolic: "Your ancestors murdered the prophets, and you bury them by teaching lies."]...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:29 _Seventh woe: descendants of murderers of the prophets._ In plotting against Jesus, the religious leaders follow their ancestors, who persecuted and MURDERED God’s PROPHE...
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...
Genesis 15:16; Numbers 32:14; Zechariah 5:6...
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...
Fill ye up — A word of permission, not of command: as if he had said, I contend with you no longer: I leave you to yourselves: you have conquered: now ye may follow the devices of your own hearts. The...