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Your house - The temple. The house of worship of the Jews. The chief ornament of Jerusalem. Desolate - About to be desolate or destroyed. To...
Lament over Jerusalem ( Luke 13:34 f.*). Matthew 23:37 may be part of the utterance ascribed by Jesus to the Wisdom of God. If not, Jesus is...
your... you. Very emphatic. At the beginning of the Lord's ministry it was "My Father's house" ( John 2:16 ); but at the end, after His rejection,...
38 Lo, your house is left to you desolate. He threatens the destruction of the temple, and the dissolution of the whole frame of civil go...
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Behold, your house - Ο οικος, the temple: - this is certainly what is meant. It was once the Lord's tem...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!— Our Lord having laid before the Pharisees andthenationtheirheinousguiltandgrievouspunishment,thethought of the calamities...
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Behold your house - the Temple, beyond all doubt; but their house now, not the Lord's. See the...
Denunciation of the Pharisees 1-36. Final denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees. The other synoptists insert in this place a brief utterance d...
Pathetic lament over Jerusalem ( Luke 13:34-35 ). St. Luke places these words in another, and much less suitable connexion. As they occur in St. Ma...
Your house ] i.e. either, (1) the city itself, (2) the Temple, or, (3) the Jewish dispensation.
Your house. — The word “desolate” is omitted in some of the best MSS. The words “your house” may refer either generally to the whole polity of Isra...
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...
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children toge...
Behold your house is left unto you desolate. Signifying that the city in which they dwelt, where they had their ceiled houses, and stately palaces,...
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Ver. 38. Behold, your house is left, &c. ] City and temple both. God will not always stand men...
Behold, your house The temple, which is now your house, not God's; is left unto you desolate Forsaken of God and his Christ, and sentenced to utt...
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 Doom of the Pharisees; The Guilt and Doom of Jerusalem. 34 Wherefore, behold,...
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...
Judgment Is To Come On That Generation Who Will Slay Jesus and His Followers In The Form Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem (23:37-39). Jesus finishe...
“Behold, your house is left to you desolate.” And because they had refused Him there was nowhere else to turn. They were so intense about their poss...
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...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets. The invitation refused Consider some of the different modes in which the rejection of G...
EXPOSITION Matthew 23:1-40 Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her...
The lament:
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
2 Chronicles 7:20 ; 2 Chronicles 7:21 ; Acts 6:13 ; Acts 6:14 ; Daniel 9:26 ; Isaiah 64:10-12 ; Jeremiah 7:9-14 ; Luke 13:35 ; Luke 19:43 ;...
Behold your house — The temple, which is now your house, not God's: Is left unto you — Our Lord spake this as he was going out of it for the last t...
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.