Matthew 23:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte - from paganism. We have evidence of this in Josephus.

And when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves - condemned, for the hypocrisy he would learn to practice, both by the religion he left and that he embraced.

Matthew 23:15

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.