Matthew 23:38

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your house - The temple. The house of worship of the Jews. The chief ornament of Jerusalem. Desolate - About to be desolate or destroyed. To...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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,...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!— Our Lord having laid before the Pharisees andthenationtheirheinousguiltandgrievouspunishment,thethought of the calamities...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Your house ] i.e. either, (1) the city itself, (2) the Temple, or, (3) the Jewish dispensation.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
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

"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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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 Doom of the Pharisees; The Guilt and Doom of Jerusalem. 34 Wherefore, behold,...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " Matthew 23:39 " .
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

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“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...
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 Biblical Illustrator

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets. The invitation refused Consider some of the different modes in which the rejection of G...
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 lament:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:38

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin'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

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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 23:38