“ Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, ”
Warnings to the People and the Disciples. Matthew 23:2 f. Loisy regards this as an interpolation (by a Judaising redactor) out of harmony with the attack that follows. Holtzmann thinks it is Mt...
multitude . crowds. Note the Structure (p. 1857).
Matthew 23:1 . Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes. This warning was highly useful, that, amidst contentions and the noise of combats, amidst the trouble and confusion of public affairs, amid...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Then spake Jesus, &c.— Because our Saviour had mentioned the final conquest and destruction of his enemies, who were to be made his footstool, he turned towards his disciples, and in the hearin...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, The first twelve verses were addressed more immediately to the disciples, the rest to the scribes and Pharisees. Then spake Jesus to...
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 12:38-40 ; Luk...
XXIII. (1) To the multitude. — Now, as in Matthew 15:10 , but here more fully and emphatically, our Lord not only reproves the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, but warns the multitude against them....
6; Matthew 22:1-46 ; Matthew 23:1-39 Chapter 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18-46 - Matthew 22:1-46 - Matthew 23:1-39 IT had been written that the Lord should suddenly come to...
Humbling the Self-exalted Matthew 23:1-12 These words were addressed to the disciples and the crowds that had gathered around. The Jewish religious leaders divorced morality and religion, and i...
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...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Lord Jesus is engaged in exhorting his disciples, and the multitude, against the doctrine of the Scribes and Pharisees. The Chapter closeth with Christ's pathetic lament...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude ,.... To the common people that were about him in the temple; the high priests and elders, Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees, having left him, being all nonplussed...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Ver. 1. Then spake Jesus to the multitude, &c. ] Christ having confuted and confounded the Scribes and Pharisees, turns him to the peo...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude Leaving all converse with his adversaries; whom he now gave up to the hardness of their hearts. The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses's seat Or, chair That is...
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 t...
The Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying,...
MATTHEW CHAPTER 23 Matthew 23:1-12 Christ exhorteth to observe the doctrine, but not to follow the evil examples, of the scribes and Pharisees; and particularly not to imitate their ambition. M...
‘Then spoke Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples,' Sitting teaching in the crowded Temple courtyard, filled as it would be with pilgrims and worshippers, Jesus directs His first words at the eag...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 23:1 . Then spake Jesus. —The day of grace is over for the leaders of the people; but for the people themselves there may still be hope; so the Lord of the temple turns to...
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 presi...
The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Christ’s reproaches of Pharisees There must be some just, reasonable, and great cause of our Lord’s indignation, and this we find was an accumu...
EXPOSITION Matthew 23:1-40 Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her own destruction. (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) Ma...
Then spake Jesus to the multitude and to His disciples,
Luke 12:1 ; Luke 12:57 ; Luke 20:45 ; Mark 7:14 ; Matthew 15:10
Then — Leaving all converse with his adversaries, whom he now left to the hardness of their hearts.