“ Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, ”
See also Mark 7:1-9 . Then came to Jesus ... - Mark says that they saw the disciples of Jesus eating with unwashed hands. Matthew 15:2 Transgress the tradition of the elders - The worl...
(3) [Ye] hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, (3) The same men are condemned for hypocrisy and superstition, because they made the kingdom of God to consist of outward things.
The Washing of Hands and the Traditions of the Elders ( Mark 7:1-23 *). Mt. is again briefer than Mk. He omits the parenthetical explanation Mark 7:3 f. and the technical term Corban, turns the...
Esaias . Isaiah. See App-79. of . concerning. Greek. peri.
7. Well hath Isaiah prophesied concerning you. Our Lord now proceeds farther; for he decides on the question in hand, which he divides into two clauses. The first is, that they relied on out...
DISCOURSE: 1370 FORMAL WORSHIPPERS, HYPOCRITES Matthew 15:7-9 . Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with t...
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you - In every place where the proper names of the Old Testament occur, in the New, the same mode of...
Ye hypocrites, &c.— See note on Isaiah 29:13 . In St. Mark, our Lord makes this citation at the beginning of his discourse, Mark 7:6-7 . Possibly therefore he cited and applied it twice; firs...
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying ( Isaiah 29:13 ).
The Traditions of the Elders. The Canaanitish Woman. Feeding the Four Thousand 1-20. Unwashed hands and the traditions of the elders ( Mark 7:1 ). In this important controversy Jesus defined His p...
Ye hypocrites. — See Note on Matthew 7:5 .
Chapter 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1-36 - Matthew 15:1-39 - Matthew 16:1-12 . THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet be...
God's Truth above Men's Teaching Matthew 15:1-9 The legal washing of hands before eating was especially sacred in the eyes of the Pharisees. “He who does not wash His hands before eating,” says...
The question was not of cleanliness, but of ritual. This washing of hands to remove imaginary evil was a part of the tradition of the elders. Against the binding of such burdens on men our Lord passi...
"Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, (2) Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. (3) But...
Ye hypocrites ,.... After our Lord had given so full a proof of their making void the commandments of God by their traditions, he might very justly, as he does, call them hypocrites; who pretended t...
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, Ver. 7. Well did Esaias prophesy of you ] Of such as you, and so of you too. The prophets and apostles then spake not of them only with w...
Ye hypocrites To substitute superstitious observances of man's invention, in the place of obedience to God's commands, is downright hypocrisy; it is, however, the prerogative of Him who searches th...
After the power and grace of the Lord Jesus has wrought so great, refreshing blessing, the cold, barren criticism of scribes and Pharisees of Jerusalem is an example of how the deadening principle of...
Jesus Reproves the Scribes and Pharisees. 1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 2 Why do t...
See Poole on " Matthew 15:9 " .
The Challenge From Jerusalem (15:1-9). In Chapter s 11-12, after the discourse in chapter 10, Matthew had begun by drawing attention to the imprisonment of John ( Matthew 11:2 ), spoke of the oppo...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 15:1 . Of Jerusalem. — From Jerusalem (see R.V.). Probably a deputation from the Sanhedrin sent expressly to watch Him. Matthew 15:2 . Transgress the tradition. —The J...
Matthew 15:7 These words call us to look at three points, the first of which is the importance of plain speaking on all questions affecting the interests of truth. Jesus Christ was pre-eminently a...
Matthew 15:1-2 . Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat...
Matthew 15:2 . Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? The cabala, or unwritten law, was counted by the pharisees of equal authority with the law itself. Rabbi Aquiba says, he...
This people draweth near to Me with their mouth. Lip profession I. Show who they are who answer to the description in the text. All merely nominal Christians. Formal, self-righteous persons. Fa...
EXPOSITION Matthew 15:1-40 Discourse concerning ceremonial pollution. ( Mark 7:1-41 .) Matthew 15:1 Then . This is after the third Passover, which whether our Lord attended or not...
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
Acts 28:25-27 ; Mark 7:6 ; Matthew 23:23-29 ; Matthew 7:5
Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying — That is, the description which Isaiah gave of your fathers, is exactly applicable to you. The words therefore which were a description of them, are a proph...