“ Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. ”
Your house - The temple. The house of worship of the Jews. The chief ornament of Jerusalem. Desolate - About to be desolate or destroyed. To be forsaken as a place of worship, and delivered i...
Lament over Jerusalem ( Luke 13:34 f.*). Matthew 23:37 may be part of the utterance ascribed by Jesus to the Wisdom of God. If not, Jesus is referring not so much to His earlier visits to Jer...
your... you. Very emphatic. At the beginning of the Lord's ministry it was "My Father's house" ( John 2:16 ); but at the end, after His rejection, it was "your house". house: i.e. the Temple, wh...
38 Lo, your house is left to you desolate. He threatens the destruction of the temple, and the dissolution of the whole frame of civil government. Though they were disfigured by irreligio...
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Behold, your house - Ο οικος, the temple: - this is certainly what is meant. It was once the Lord's temple, God's Own house; but now he says, Your temple...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!— Our Lord having laid before the Pharisees andthenationtheirheinousguiltandgrievouspunishment,thethought of the calamities which were comingupon them moved him exceedingly:...
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Behold your house - the Temple, beyond all doubt; but their house now, not the Lord's. See the note at Matthew 22:7 . Is left unto you desola...
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...
Your house. — The word “desolate” is omitted in some of the best MSS. The words “your house” may refer either generally to the whole polity of Israel, or more specifically to the “house” in which t...
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...
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under h...
Behold your house is left unto you desolate. Signifying that the city in which they dwelt, where they had their ceiled houses, and stately palaces, would, in a little time, within the space of fort...
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Ver. 38. Behold, your house is left, &c. ] City and temple both. God will not always stand men for a sinning stock. They that will not hear his w...
Behold, your house The temple, which is now your house, not God's; is left unto you desolate Forsaken of God and his Christ, and sentenced to utter destruction. Our Lord spake this as he was goin...
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...
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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...
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...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets. The invitation refused Consider some of the different modes in which the rejection of God’s call has been made. Far, all do not reject Hi...
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 lament:
2 Chronicles 7:20 ; 2 Chronicles 7:21 ; Acts 6:13 ; Acts 6:14 ; Daniel 9:26 ; Isaiah 64:10-12 ; Jeremiah 7:9-14 ; Luke 13:35 ; Luke 19:43 ; Luke 19:44 ; Luke 21:20 ; Luke 21:24 ; Luke 21...
Behold your house — The temple, which is now your house, not God's: Is left unto you — Our Lord spake this as he was going out of it for the last time: Desolate — Forsaken of God and his Christ, an...