Matthew 23:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, ”

• Matthew 23:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Ye build the tombs of the prophets - That is, you build sepulchres or tombs ever the prophets that have been slain. This they did professedly from veneration and respect for their character. This...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (9) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, (9) Hypocrites, when they try the most to cover up their...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Woe, &c. Compare Matthew 5:9 , and see App-126. tombs. Greek. taphoi. There are four at the base of Olivet: those of Zechariah, Absalom, Jehoshaphat, and St. James; but there is no author...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Matthew 23:29 . For you build the sepulchers of the prophets. An unfounded opinion is entertained by some, that the scribes are here reproved for superstition, in foolishly honoring the d...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, Ye build the tombs of the prophets - It appears that, through...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, Woe unto you ... hypocrites! ye build the tombs of th...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye build the tombs... — Four conspicuous monuments of this kind are seen to the present day at the base of the Mount of Olives, in the so-called Valley of Jehoshaphat, the architecture of which, wi...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  PHARISAIC SINS ‘Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!’ Matthew 23:29 We have to do with what are familiarly known as ‘Pharisaic Sins.’ They resolve themselves chiefly into four:—P...

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• Matthew 23:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ,.... This is the seventh and last time, in which these words are delivered in this exact form by our Lord, in this chapter; and expresses the certaint...

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• Matthew 23:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, Ver. 29. Ye build the tombs, &c. ] And lost their cos...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Matthew 23:30 " .

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 c...

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• Matthew 23:29 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Matthew 23:29-31 . 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 o...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  How can ye escape the damnation of hell? - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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• Matthew 23:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,

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• Matthew 23:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 2:29 ; Luke 11:47 ; Luke 11:48

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• Matthew 23:29 - 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...

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