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Fill ye up, then ... - This is a prediction of what they were about to do. He would have them act out their true spirit, and show what they were,...
(u) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. (u) A proverb used by the Jews, which has this meaning: You go on also, and follow your ancestors,...
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...
Fill ye up . And ye, fill ye up.
32. Do you then fill up the measure of your fathers. He at length concludes that they are not, in this respect, degenerate from their father...
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Fill ye up then - Notwithstanding the profession you make, ye will fill up the measure of your fathers -...
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...
Fill ye up then the measure, &c.— That is, the measure of your fathers' sin, (the measure fixed upon by God for punishment.) See John 13:27 ....
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Denunciation of the Pharisees 1-36. Final denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees. The other synoptists insert in this place a brief utterance d...
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...
Fill ye up then ] i.e. 'Carry out your wickedness to the full, as your fathers did, by putting Me to death. You desire to do so, and I shall not hin...
Fill ye up then ... — The English fails to give the pathetic abruptness of the original: And ye — fill ye up the measure of your fathers. The t...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Of their sins; for there were bounds and limits set how far they should proceed, and no further; as ye...
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ver. 32. Fill ye up then the measure ] Ironice dictum. Ironic saying. It gives us to understand th...
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers' wickedness Ye may now be as wicked as they: a word of permission, not of command: as if he had said, I...
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...
The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrit...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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 ....
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...
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...
EXPOSITION Matthew 23:1-40 Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her...
The eighth woe:
Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Genesis 15:16 ; Numbers 32:14 ; Zechariah 5:6-11
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...
Fill ye up — A word of permission, not of command: as if he had said, I contend with you no longer: I leave you to yourselves: you have conquered:...
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.