Matthew 5:47 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? ”

• Matthew 5:47 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And if you salute your brethren ... - The word “salute” here means to show the customary tokens of civility, or to treat with the common marks of friendship. See the notes at Luke 10:4 . The Sav...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the (x) publicans so? (x) They that were the toll masters, and had the oversight of tributes and customs: this was a t...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Loving One's Neighbour ( cf. Luke 6:27 f., Matthew 5:32-36 ).Thou shalt love thy neighbour ( i.e. fellow Israelite) is the precept of the Law ( Leviticus 19:18 ); and hate thine enemy is a Rab...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  publicans. L. with Vulgate and some codices read "Gentiles". The publican was despised; Gentiles were detested.

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• Matthew 5:47 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1309 LOVE TO ENEMIES ENJOINED Matthew 5:43-48 . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others ? do not even the publicans so? And if ye salute your brethren only - Instead of αδελφους brethren, upwards of one hundred MSS., and...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And if ye salute— The original word ασπασησθε denotes all outward signs of friendship, such as embracing, wishing well, &c. It is the word used by the apostles in their salutations, Romans 16...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And if ye salute your brethren only what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Sermon on the Mount John 5:1 to John 7:29 . The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20 . This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke ( Luke 6:20 ), that it is best to regard t...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  If ye salute your brethren. — The prominence of salutation in the social life of the East gives a special vividness to this precept. To utter the formal “Peace be with you,” to follow that up by ma...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Brotherly Relationship Matthew 5:38-48 In mentioning the second mile, our Lord refers to a well-known Eastern custom of forwarding messages by relays of forced labor. We leave our homes on a gi...

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• Matthew 5:47 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Was there ever such a refinement of the most perfect law of the LORD as is here drawn? And where shall we look for the fulfilment of it but in the Lord JESUS himself? He indeed, and He only, observed...

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• Matthew 5:47 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And if you salute your brethren only ,.... This does not mean salutation by embraces or kisses, but by words, asking of each other's welfare, and wishing prosperity and happiness to one another. "T...

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• Matthew 5:47 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others ? do not even the publicans so? Ver. 47. What do ye more than others? ] Singular things are expected and required of such as hav...

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• Matthew 5:47 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Sermon on the Mount.       43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.   44 But I s...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 46,47. Reason obliges you, who expect a reward from God for what you do, to do something more than those who know of no such reward, or at least live in no expectation of any such thing; and you...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Disciples Are To Love Even Their Enemies And Are To Seek To Be Perfect Even As Their Father in Heaven Is Perfect (5:43-48). Jesus has been slowly building up to this final revelation of the lo...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Matthew 5:43-48 I. Our Lord does not say here that all men are to be equally dear to us, or equally esteemed by us. He does not substitute a vague principle of universal philanthropy in the room o...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Matthew 5:17 . Think not that I am came to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. The life, work, and words of Christ are not an emendation of the Old Testame...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...

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• Matthew 5:47 - The Biblical Illustrator

  What do ye more? Christian benevolence I. What have we more than others? 1. You have forgiveness of sins. 2. Peace with God. 3. Fellowship with God. 4. You have in expectation a per...

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• Matthew 5:47 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...

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• Matthew 5:47 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And there is also the moral distinction;

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• Matthew 5:47 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:20 ; Luke 10:4 ; Luke 10:5 ; Luke 6:32 ; Matthew 5:20 ; Matthew 10:12

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• Matthew 5:47 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is o...

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• Matthew 5:47 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And if ye salute your friends only — Our Lord probably glances at those prejudices, which different sects had against each other, and intimates, that he would not have his followers imbibe that nar...

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