Matthew 7:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Enter ye in at the straita gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: ”

Matthew 7:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Enter ye in at the strait gate - Christ here compares the way to life to an entrance through a gate. The words “straight” and “strait” have very different meanings. The former means “not crooked;...
Matthew 7:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(5) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: (5) The example of life must not be taken from...
Matthew 7:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Epilogue. Warnings and exhortations close the new Law, like the old ( Exodus 23:20 ff.). Matthew 7:13 f. The Two Gates and the Two Ways ( Luke 13:24 ). The picture is based on Jeremiah 21:8...
Matthew 7:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Enter ye in, &c. Repeated on. later occasion. Luke 13:2 . at . through, or by means of Greek. dia. strait . narrow. wide. Greek. platus. Occurs only here. broad . extensive. Greek...
Matthew 7:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

13. Enter in by the strait gate As nothing is more opposed to the flesh than the doctrine of Christ, no man will ever make great proficiency in it who has not learned to confine his sense...
Matthew 7:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1331 THE STRAIT AND NARROW WAYS Matthew 7:13-14 . Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in...
Matthew 7:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Enter ye in at the strait gate - Our Savior seems t...
Matthew 7:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Enter ye in at the strait gate— That is, strive to enter. See Luke 13:24 . By the figurative expressions used in these verses, our blessed Saviour gives us to understand how easy it is to enter...
Matthew 7:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Enter ye in at the strait gate - as if hardly w...
Matthew 7:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount (concluded) The connexion of thought in this chapter is less close than in the earlier part of the sermon, and the whole chapter bears the appearance of an appendix of misc...
Matthew 7:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Enter ye in at the strait gate. — The figure was possibly suggested by some town actually in sight. Safed, the “city set on a hill,” or some other, with the narrow pathway leading to the yet narrow...
Matthew 7:13 - 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...
Matthew 7:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Seeking Life; Testing Leaders Matthew 7:13-23 The world is full of shams. Counterfeit coins circulate; paste jewels are worn. Let us take heed against a counterfeit religion. It betrays itself...
Matthew 7:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

After thus enunciating the laws of the Kingdom, and bringing men into the realm of direct dealing with God, the King authoritatively set up the standard of judgment. No man is to be his brother's jud...
Matthew 7:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nothing can be more interesting than what the Lord JESUS hath here said. And no form of words can be more decisive to mark the godly man from the hypocrite. I only detain the Reader to observe, how v...
Matthew 7:13 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

AVOIDING THE WAY OF THE MANY ‘Enter ye in at the strait gate,’ etc. Matthew 7:13 Our Lord here gives us a general caution against the way of the many in religion. It is not enough to think a...
Matthew 7:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Enter ye in at the strait gate ,.... By the "strait gate" is meant Christ himself; who elsewhere calls himself "the door", John 10:7 as he is into the church below, and into all the ordinances an...
Matthew 7:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Ver. 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate ] Our S...
Matthew 7:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Enter ye in at the strait gate The gate of true conversion, of self-denial, mortification, and universal holiness; the gate in at which few, comparatively speaking, are inclined to enter. “How stra...
Matthew 7:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Simple honesty will understand these first five verses without difficulty. The word "judge" is used in various different ways in Scripture. Believers are told to "judge" what Paul says ( 1 Corinthian...
Matthew 7:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is...
Matthew 7:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Matthew 7:14 " .
Matthew 7:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Two Ways (7:13-14). Jesus commences His closing exhortation by setting before them a choice as to which way they will take in the future. His words reveal that He is very much aware that among...
Matthew 7:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 7:13 . Destruction. —The word implies, not annihilation, but waste ( Matthew 26:8 ; Mark 14:4 ), perdition, i.e . the loss of all that makes existence precious. I questi...
Matthew 7:13 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 7:13-14 There are only two ways the broad and the narrow. Along one or other of these has every mortal pilgrim gone. By one or other of these is every living man travelling now. I. Look f...
Matthew 7:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

While we are reading, let us also be adoring at the same time, for the. words of Christ have a gracious divinity about them; they are infinite; they are omnipotent. There is a kind of life in them; a...
Matthew 7:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 7:1 . Judge not, that ye be not judged. This refers to private and censorious reproaches of others. We must judge nothing before the time. It is better that ten bad men pass for innocent,...
Matthew 7:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Enter ye in at the strait gate. The strait gate not a shut gate I. The faithfulness of a holy God. God has told us the way is difficult. It is against nature. II. The tenderness of a mercifu...
Matthew 7:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 7:1-40 (2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards ( Matthew 6:19-40 ), so does censoriousness manwards ( Matthew 7:1-40 ), our Lord thus tacitly...
Matthew 7:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat;
Matthew 7:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 5:19 ; 1 Peter 4:17 ; 1 Peter 4:18 ; 2 Corinthians 4:4 ; 2 Corinthians 6:17 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:9 ; Acts 2:38-40 ; Acts 3:19 ; Ephesians 2:2 ; Ephesians 2:3 ;...
Matthew 7:13 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 7:1-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that we should not judge one another. There is probably no...
Matthew 7:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The strait gate — The holiness described in the foregoing chapters. And this is the narrow way. Wide is the gate, and many there are that go in through it — They need not seek for this; they come t...

Matthew 7:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 7:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 7:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 7:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 7:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 7:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 7:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 7:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 7:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 7:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 7:13 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 7:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes