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Verse Matthew 23:15. _COMPASS SEA AND LAND_] A proverbial expression,
similar to ours, _You leave no stone unturned_; intimating that they
did all in their power to gain converts, not to God, but to t...
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YE COMPASS SEA AND LAND - You take every means, spare no pains, to
gain proselytes.
PROSELYTE - One that comes over from a foreign nation, religion, or
sect to us - a convert. Among the Jews there we...
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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 ov...
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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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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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WOE, &C. Compare Matthew 5:5, and see App-126.
LAND. dry [land].
PROSELYTE. The Greek is transliterated, and means. comer over to. Used
of. Gentile who came over to the Jews' religion. Occurs only h...
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_compass_ "go about," "traverse." The word is used of our Lord's
"circuits" in Galilee, ch. Matthew 4:23; Matthew 9:35.
_proselyte_ Literally, ONE WHO APPROACHES, hence, "a worshipper," (cp.
Hebrews...
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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 15. "WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE
COMPASS SEA AND LAND TO MAKE ONE PROSELYTE, AND WHEN HE IS MADE, YOU
MAKE HIM TWOFOLD MORE THE CHILD OF HELL THAN YOURSELVES."
Chrys.:...
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_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...
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ΠΕΡΙΆΓΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΊΆΓΩ (G4013)
обходить, путешествовать вокруг.
ΞΗΡΌΣ (G3584) сухой (суша),
ΠΟΙΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать.
_Inf._ цели,
ΠΡΟΣΉΛΥΤΟΣ прозелит (TDNT...
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YE COMPASS SEA AND LAND, &C.— 3. The _third_ woe is denounced,
because theyexpressed the greatest zeal imaginable in making
proselytes, compassing sea and land; that is to say, using the most
indefati...
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TEXT: 23:13-15
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye
shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in
yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in t...
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea
and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him
twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
WOE UNTO YOU, S...
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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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23:15 hell (g-35) Gehenna....
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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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TO MAKE ONE PROSELYTE. — The zeal of the earlier Pharisees had
showed itself in a propagandism which reminds us rather of the spread
of the religion of Mahomet than of that of Christ. John Hyrcanus, t...
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6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1
CHAPTER 17
Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 - Matthew 23:1
IT had been written that the Lord should suddenly come to His Temple;
Malachi 3:1 but H...
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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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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 Ph...
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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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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea
and (p) land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him
twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
(p) The dry pa...
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Because whilst a Gentile he sinned without a perfect knowledge of the
evil, and was not then a two-fold child of hell; but after his
conversion, seeing the vices of his masters, and perceiving that th...
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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 l...
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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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15._For you compass sea and land. _The _scribes _had also acquired
celebrity by their zeal in laboring to bring over to the Jewish
religion the strangers and uncircumcised. And so, if they had gained...
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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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WOE UNTO YOU SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES,.... The same
character, and woe, are still continued, and a new reason added,
confirming the justness of them, in order to awaken and convince them,
or,...
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea
and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him
twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Ver. 15. _Ye compa...
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_But wo to you, scribes_, &c. Our Lord pronounced eight blessings upon
the mount, he pronounces eight woes here, not as imprecations, but
solemn, compassionate declarations of the misery which these s...
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COMPASS SEA AND LAND; make all sorts of efforts.
PROSELYTE; convert to their religion.
MORE THE CHILD OF HELL; more wicked....
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The third woe: WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE
COMPASS SEA AND LAND TO MAKE ONE PROSELYTE, AND WHEN HE IS MADE, YE
MAKE HIM TWOFOLD MORE THE CHILD OF HELL THAN YOURSELVES.
In t...
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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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A third woe followeth, expressed in this verse, because they corrupted
their proselytes, both as to doctrine and manners, so as they were
twice more the children of the devil, and in danger of hell, t...
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Dialogue of Justin
For Christ would have borne witness even to them; but now you are
become twofold more the children of hell, as He said Himself.[471]...
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Matthew 23:15 Woe G3759 you G5213 scribes G1122 and G2532 Pharisees
G5330 hypocrites G5273 For G3754 travel G4013 (G5719) land G3584 and
G2532 sea G2281 win G4160 (G5658) one G1520 proselyte G4339 and...
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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...
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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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TWOFOLD MORE A SON OF HELL THAN YOURSELVES
(υιον γεεννης διπλοτερον υμων). It is a
convert to Pharisaism rather than Judaism that is meant by "one
proselyte" (ενα προσηλυτον), from προσερχομα,
newco...
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HELL
Gehenna.
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:22). _...
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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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TO WIN ONE CONVERT. These Jewish leaders wanted to convert everyone to
Judaism and make them Jews [proselytes], because they expected that
God would then send the Messiah to set up a political kingdom...
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_But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites._
THE SINS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES
I. That they shut up the kingdom of heaven against men. “Neither
suffer ye them that are entering in.”
1....
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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 23:13. WOE.—There is indignation in the word, and just
denunciation; but, as Vatable long ago remarked, there is
“deploration” too. There is wailing in it. It is rendered
“ala...
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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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Acts 13:10; Acts 13:43; Acts 14:19; Acts 14:2; Acts 17:13; Acts 17:5;
Acts 17:6; Acts 2:10; Ephesians 2:3; Esther 8:17;...
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The next woe denounced is for their false-ended zeal and earnestness
in proselyting heathens to the Jewish religion; not with. pious
intention to save them, but to serve themselves upon them, to have...