“ Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.#rl ”
Upon this generation - The destruction of Jerusalem took place about forty years after this was spoken. See the next chapter.
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...
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.
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. Shall come upon this generation - Επι την γενεαν ταυτην, upon this race of men, viz. the Jews. This phrase often occurs in thi...
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...
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...
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...
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 atrocit...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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 yourse...
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 Doom of the Pharisees; The Guilt and Doom of Jerusalem. 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scrib...
Ver. 34-36. Luke saith, Luke 11:49-51 , 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 pr...
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...
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...
come upon See ( Revelation 18:21-24 ). 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 Jerusal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Peroration and the Lament over Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 12:21-28 ; Luke 21:32 ; Luke 21:33 ; Mark 13:30 ; Mark 13:31 ; Matthew 24:34