Matthew 23:31

See Poole on "Matthew 23:33".

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye be witnesses unto yourselves - The emphasis, here, lies in the words “to yourselves.” It is an appeal to their conscience. It was not by their...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Wherefore . so that. children . sons. App-108.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Ye be witnesses - Ye acknowledge that ye are t...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye make clean the outside, &c.— 6. The sixth woe is denounced for their hypocrisy: they were at great pains to appear virtuous, and to have a...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye build the tombs, &c.— 8. The eighth woe is denounced, because by the pains they took in adorning the sepulchres of the prophets, they pret...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, Woe...
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

Unto yourselves ] or, 'against yourselves.' The v. is an ironical commentary on the statement of the Pharisees ( Matthew 23:30 ), 'If we had been in...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ye be witnesses unto yourselves. — Their words were true in another sense than that in which they had spoken them. They were reproducing in their d...
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

Judgment and Lament Matthew 23:27-39 True goodness recognizes and rewards good in the living; while the evil-minded cannot, or will not, believ...
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

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves ,.... Or "against yourselves", as the Syriac reads; for what they said was a plain acknowledgment, and a f...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Ver. 31. Wherefore ye be witnesses, &c...
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

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

In Spite Of Their Claims To Be Otherwise They Should Recognise That They Were Simply As Bad As Their Fathers (23:29-33). Along with their generati...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Thus you witness to yourselves, that you are sons of those who slew the prophets. Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.” Jesus then points...
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 ....
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 r...
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 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 eighth woe:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Acts 7:51 ; Acts 7:52 ; Job 15:5 ; Job 15:6 ; Joshua 24:22 ; Luke 19:22 ; Psalms 64:8
Wells of Living Water Commentary

A Double-Minded Man Matthew 23:23-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "A double minded man is unstable in all his days." We have in Matthew 23:1-39 , a str...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Wherefore ye testify against yourselves — By your smooth words as well as devilish actions: that ye are the genuine sons of them who killed the pro...

³¹ Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 23:31