Matthew 23:17

See Poole on "Matthew 23:22".

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The temple that sanctifieth the gold - To sanctify is to make holy. The gold had no holiness but what it derived from the temple. If in any other...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

[Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that (r) sanctifieth the gold? (r) Causes the gold which is dedicated to a hol...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Seven Woes. Seven is a sacred number and often used in Mt., as in OT ( cf. especially Isaiah 5) and Rev. The first three treat of Pharisaic teac...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye fools and blind— The Apostle's words, Hebrews 6:16 are a proper comment on the 17th verse, for men verily swear by the greater. Whoso shall s...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? Ye fools, and blind! for whether is greater, the...
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 d...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Seven Woes on the Scribes and Pharisees . Jesus, knowing that His death was at hand, and that the conversion of His enemies was hopeless, poured...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

On dishonest casuistry . The lax moralists of that time invented ways of evading the obligation of truthfulness, by saying that certain forms of swe...
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 b...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Woes for the False-hearted Matthew 23:13-26 These repeated woes may be translated, Alas for you! Our Lord with unfailing accuracy indicates t...
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 re...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suff...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ye fools, and blind ,.... That argue after so ridiculous a manner, that make use of such thin sophistry, that everybody may see through it; who must...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? Ver. 17. Whether is greater, the gold, &c. ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wo unto you, ye blind guides Before he had styled them hypocrites , from their personal character; now he gives them another title respecting thei...
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 Pharis...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrit...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus Passes Judgment On The Scribes And Pharisees And Describes the Devastations Coming On The World Prior To His Coming Again And The Judgment Tha...
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 he...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus Faces The Scribes and Pharisees Up To Their Hypocrisy (23:13-33). It will be quite clear that the words which Jesus has spoken to His discip...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Woe/alas to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Their Failure To Discern What Is Truly Holy (23:16-22). Their next condemnation lies in the fact that they lay greater emphasis on their own gifts...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 23:16 . Gold of the temple. —The exact meaning of this expression is uncertain; but the probability is that it refers to...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 23:17 The Visible Temple. I. A Temple there has been upon earth, a spiritual Temple, made up of living stones a Temple, as I may say, com...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Whosoever shall swear by the Temple, it is nothing. Thoughtless profanity Are there any before me who are accustomed to use God’s name as an ex...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The fourth woe:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ye fools and blind! For whether is greater, the gold, or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 30:26-29 ; Matthew 23:19 ; Numbers 16:38 ; Numbers 16:39 ; Psalms 94:8

¹⁷ Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 23:17