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Verse Matthew 23:36. _SHALL COME UPON THIS GENERATION_] επι την
γενεαν ταυτην, _upon this race of men_, viz. the _Jews_.
This phrase often occurs in this sense in the evangelists....
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UPON THIS GENERATION - The destruction of Jerusalem took place about
forty years after this was spoken. See the next chapter....
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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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A LAST WARNING. With Matthew 23:33 _cf._ the Baptist's words, Matthew
3:7.
Matthew 23:34. Luke 11:49 *.
Matthew 23:35. Abel: Genesis 4:8. ZACHARIAH: 2 Chronicles 24:20 ff.
The reference is thus to al...
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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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VERILY. See note on Matthew 5:18.
THIS GENERATION. See note on Matthew 11:16; Matthew 24:34. _Metonymy_
(of Adjunct), for the inhabitants.
CHILDREN. Plural of _teknon._ App-108....
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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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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...
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_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...
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ΉΞΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΉΚ (G2240) приходить,
ΓΕΝΈΑ (G1074) поколение....
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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: 23:29-36
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 f...
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Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation.
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, ALL THESE THINGS SHALL COME UPON THIS
GENERATION. As it was only in the last generation of them that...
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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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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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ALL THESE THINGS SHALL COME UPON THIS GENERATION. — The words carry
on the thought of the measure that is gradually being filled up. Men
make the guilt of past ages their own, reproduce its atrocities...
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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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_Peroration_ (Luke 11:49-51)....
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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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_Amen, I say to you. More severe punishments were inflicted on these
Jews, on account of their more grievous and heinous transgressions;
for nothing had been able to recall them from their wickedness....
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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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"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...
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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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VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU,.... An usual form of introducing something of
moment to raise attention to it, and to ascertain the truth of it:
ALL THESE THINGS SHALL COME UPON THIS GENERATION; all the thing...
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Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this
generation.
Ver. 36. _Shall come upon this generation_] In that last desolation of
Jerusalem, whereof more in the next Mt. God will not fa...
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_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...
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THESE THINGS; the punishments due to their sins....
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THE PERORATION AND THE LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM....
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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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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 w...
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Ver. 34-36. Luke saith, LUKE 11:49, _Therefore also said the wisdom of
God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they
shall slay and persecute: that the blood of all the prophets,...
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Matthew 23:36 Assuredly G281 say G3004 (G5719) you G5213 all G3956
things G5023 come G2240 (G5692) upon G1909 this G5026 generation G1074
Matthew 24:34; Ezekiel 12:21-28; Mark 13:30-31;...
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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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COME UPON
See (Revelation 18:21).
It is the way also of history; judgment falls upon one generation for
the sins of centuries. The pediction was fulfilled in the destruction
of Jerusalem, A.D. 70....
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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...
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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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AS A RESULT. The best explanation is the parable in Luke 20:9-16.
These people not only approved the sins of their ancestors, but they
would murder the Son of God. As a result the combined guilt of al...
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_How can ye escape the damnation of hell?_
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THE DIFFICULTY OF ESCAPING THE DAMNATION OF HELL
I. What your situation actually is.
1. You are even now under sentence of condemnation.
2. You need t...
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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 23:29. 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...
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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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Ezekiel 12:21; Luke 21:32; Luke 21:33; Mark 13:30; Mark 13:31; Matthew
24:34...