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Verse Matthew 23:27. _FOR YE ARE LIKE_] παρομοιαζετε, _ye
exactly_ _resemble _- the parallel is complete.
_WHITED SEPULCHRES_] _White-washed tombs_. As the law considered those
unclean who had touche...
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LIKE UNTO WHITED SEPULCHRES - For the construction of sepulchres, see
the notes at Matthew 8:28. Those tombs were annually whitewashed to
prevent the people from accidentally coming in contact with th...
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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 5:9, and see App-126.
ARE LIKE UNTO. Greek. _paromoiazo._ Occurs only here.
WHITED. Sepulchres were whitened. month before the Passover, to warn
off persons from contracting...
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_like unto whited sepulchres_ In Luke the comparison is to "graves
that appear not," by walking over which men unconsciously defile
themselves. To avoid this ceremonial defilement the Jews carefully
w...
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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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ΠΑΡΟΜΟΙΆΖΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΜΟΙΆΖΩ
(G3945) быть подобным (с _dat._).
ΤΆΦΟΣ (G5028) могила,
ΚΕΚΟΝΙΑΜΈΝΟΙΣ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΚΟΝΙΆΩ
(G2867) делать белым, белить с помощью
мела или изве...
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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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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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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.
WOE...
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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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23:27 which (b-14) 'Which are such as.'...
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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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YE ARE LIKE UNTO WHITED SEPULCHRES. — Contact with a sepulchre
brought with it ceremonial uncleanness, and all burial-places were
accordingly white-washed once a year, on the 15th day of the month
Ada...
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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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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 s...
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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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_Whitened sepulchres. The Jews, lest they should be defiled with
touching the sepuchres, whitened them on the outside, in order to
distinguish them. But this exterior whiteness, covering interior
corr...
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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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27_You are like whitened sepulchers. _This is a different metaphor,
but the meaning is the same; for he compares them to _sepulchers,
_which the men of the world ambitiously construct with great beaut...
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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,.... It is much these
men could bear to hear themselves so often called by this name; and it
shows great courage in our Lord, so freely to reprove them,...
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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.
Ver....
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_Wo unto you, for you are like whited sepulchres_ Here we have the
seventh wo. Dr. Shaw, (_Trav._, p. 285,) gives a genial description of
the different sorts of tombs and sepulchres in the East conclu...
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WHITED SEPULCHRES; sepulchres newly whitewashed, according to the
custom of the country at certain periods....
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WOE UNTO YOU, SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES! FOR YE ARE LIKE UNTO
WHITED SEPULCHERS, WHICH INDEED APPEAR BEAUTIFUL OUTWARD, BUT ARE
WITHIN FULL OF DEAD MEN'S BONES, AND OF ALL UNCLEANNESS....
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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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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:27"....
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Dialogue of Justin
s; and do so in a low and sordid manner, while they never venture
either to speak of or to expound the points which are great and worthy
of investigation, or command you to give no...
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Matthew 23:27 Woe G3759 you G5213 scribes G1122 and G2532 Pharisees
G5330 hypocrites G5273 For G3754 like G3945 (G5719) whitewashed G2867
(G5772) tombs G5028 which G3748 indeed G3303 appear G5316 (G57...
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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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WHITED SEPULCHRE
(ταφοις κεκονιαμενοις). The perfect passive
participle is from κονιαω and that from κονια, dust or
lime. Whitened with powdered lime dust, the sepulchres of the poor in
the fields...
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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 23:13 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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Acts 23:3; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 58:2; Luke 11:44; Numbers 19:16...
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Whited sepulchres [τ α φ ο ι ς κ ε κ ο ν ι α μ ε ν ο
ι ς]. Not the rock - tombs, belonging mostly to the rich, but the
graves covered with plastered structures. In general, cemeteries were
outside of...
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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 PRETE...
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Here we have. woe denounced against the Pharisees for cheating and
deceiving the people with an outward shew, and external appearance of
piety and religion: their lives were seemingly very religious b...