Matthew 23:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. ”

• Matthew 23:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Ye shall not see me ... - The day of your mercy is gone by. I have offered you protection and salvation, and you have rejected it. You are about to crucify me, and your temple to be destroyed, an...

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• Matthew 23:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Matthew 23:39 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  not . by no means, in no wise. Greek. ou me, App-105. see . behold. App-133. till. With an, implying uncertainty. The not seeing was certain: their saying it at that time was uncertain....

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• Matthew 23:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  39. For I tell you. He confirms what he had said about the approaching vengeance of God, by saying that the only method of avoiding destruction will be taken from them. For that was the ac...

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• Matthew 23:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Ye shall not see me - I will remove my Gospel from you, and withdraw my pro...

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• Matthew 23:39 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Henceforth— Απ αρτι, hereafter. "Because you have killed the prophets, and endeavoured to stone me, whom the Father hath sent unto you; because your great men are at this moment plotting against...

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• Matthew 23:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. For I say unto you - and these were His last words to the impenitent...

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• Matthew 23:39 - 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 23:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Till ye shall say. — There is obviously a reference to the fact that the words quoted from Psalms 118:26 , had been uttered by the crowd but a few days before on His solemn entry into Jerusalem. N...

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• Matthew 23:39 - 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 23:39 - 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 23:39 - 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 23:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  REFLECTIONS Pause Reader! pause my soul, over the contents of this Chapter. Surely nothing can be more solemn, nothing more affecting. Behold the Son of God, who came to seek and save that which was...

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• Matthew 23:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For I say unto you, ye shall not see me henceforth ,.... Meaning in a very little time after the passover, from the time of his crucifixion and death; otherwise they saw him many times after this, a...

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• Matthew 23:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Ver. 39. Till ye shall say, Blessed, &c. ] That is, ye shall never...

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• Matthew 23:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Matthew 23:39 - 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 23:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  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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• Matthew 23:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  We have the same Luke 13:34,35 . O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The doubling of the word showeth the vehemency of our Saviour's affection. Thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are se...

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• Matthew 23:39 - 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 23:39 - 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 23:39 - Scofield Reference Notes

  till The three "untils" of Israel's blessing: (1) Israel must say, "blessed is He" ( Matthew 23:39 ); ( Romans 10:3 ); ( Romans 10:4 ). (2) Gentile world-power must run its course. ( Luk...

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• Matthew 23:39 - 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 23:39 - 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 23:39 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Matthew 23:39 - 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 23:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The lament:

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• Matthew 23:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 3:14 ; Hosea 3:4 ; Isaiah 40:9-11 ; John 14:19 ; John 14:9 ; John 8:21 ; John 8:24 ; John 8:56 ; Luke 10:22 ; Luke 10:23 ; Luke 17:22 ; Luke 2:26-30 ; Matthew 21:9 ; Psalm...

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• Matthew 23:39 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Ye — Jews in general; men of Jerusalem in particular: shall not see me from this time — Which includes the short space till his death, till, after a long interval of desolation and misery, ye say,...

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