Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents — Our Lord having now lost all hope of reclaiming these, speaks so as to affright others from the like sins.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye serpents - This name is given to them on account of their pretending to be pious, and very much devoted to God, but being secretly evil, At th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Last Warning. With Matthew 23:33 cf. the Baptist's words, Matthew 3:7 . Matthew 23:34 . Luke 11:49 *. Matthew 23:35 . Abel: Genes...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

generation . offspring, or brood. Plural as in Matthew 3:7 ; Matthew 12:34 . and Luke 3:7 . escape . escape from (Greek. apo) . App-104.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

33. Offspring of vipers. After having demonstrated that the scribes are not only base enemies of sound doctrine, and wicked corrupters of...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers - What a terrible stroke! - Y...
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 serpents, &c.— See Luke 3:7 . Men of warm tempers are apt to mistake this part of Christ's discourse; they fancy that his giving the Pharis...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the da...
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

See Matthew 3:7 ; Matthew 12:34 . 34-36. Luke 11:49-51 ;
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ye generation of vipers. — Better, as in Matthew 3:7 , brood, or progeny of vipers. The word of rebuke which had come before from the lips of...
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

Ye servants, ye generation of vipers ,.... The latter of these names, John the Baptist calls the Sadducees and Pharisees by, in Matthew 3:7 and Ch...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Ver. 33. Ye serpents ] Serpentum tot sunt venena, quot genera...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 31-33. You (saith our Lord) confess that you are lineally descended from those who killed the prophets: you have not only their blood communicat...
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

“You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?” Jesus then depicts all their attempts to appear righteous as s...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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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

How can ye escape the damnation of hell? - The difficulty of escaping the damnation of hell I. What your situation actually is. 1. You are...
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

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? The actual and reputed graves of the prophets of the Old Testament...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 11:3 ; Genesis 3:15 ; Hebrews 10:29 ; Hebrews 12:25 ; Hebrews 2:3 ; Isaiah 57:3 ; Isaiah 57:4 ; John 8:44 ; Luke 3:7 ; Matthe...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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³³ Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:33

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

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