Matthew 23:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ”

Matthew 23:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 f...
Matthew 23:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

iniquity . lawlessness. App-128.
Matthew 23:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Even so ye also - appear righteous unto men - But what will this appearance avail a man, when Go...
Matthew 23:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Matthew 23:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy a...
Matthew 23:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew 23:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Even so ye also ... — A like image meets us in the words in which one of the Maccabean princes, Alexander Jannæus, warned his wife on his death-bed to beware of “men who were painted Pharisees, e...
Matthew 23:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Matthew 23:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Matthew 23:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Matthew 23:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"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 un...
Matthew 23:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous ,.... By making broad their phylacteries, enlarging the borders of their garments, praying long prayers, compassing sea and land to make one proselyte, pay...
Matthew 23:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Ver. 28. But within ye are full, &c. ] Fair professors they were, but foul sinners, not...
Matthew 23:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew 23:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against m...
Matthew 23:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 27,28. The similitude is of the same import with the other, to show that the Pharisees had only a vizard of strictness and holiness, when in the mean time their hearts were full of lusts, hypocr...
Matthew 23:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 Pharise...
Matthew 23:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 scrib...
Matthew 23:28 - Scofield Reference Notes

iniquity Literally, Lawlessness. ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).
Matthew 23:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew 23:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 mi...
Matthew 23:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Matthew 23:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The seventh woe:
Matthew 23:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 16:7 ; Hebrews 4:12 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Jeremiah 17:9 ; Luke 16:15 ; Matthew 23:5 ; Mark 7:21-23 ; Matthew 12:34 ; Matthew 12:35 ; Matthew 15:19 ; Matthew 15:20 ;...
Matthew 23:28 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

A Double-Minded Man Matthew 23:23-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "A double minded man is unstable in all his days." We have in Matthew 23:1-39 , a striking illustration of these words. 1. We have pi...

Matthew 23:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 23:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 23:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 23:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 23:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 23:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 23:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 23:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 23:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 23:28 - Scofield Reference Notes

Matthew 23:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 23:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 23:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 23:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 23:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 23:28 - Wells of Living Water Commentary