Matthew 23:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion, х harpagees (G724)]. In Luke (Luke 11:39) the same word is rendered "ravening," that is, 'rapacity.' "and excess."

Matthew 23:25

25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.