Matthew 23:32

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:32

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fill ye up, then ... - This is a prediction of what they were about to do. He would have them act out their true spirit, and show what they were,...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(u) Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. (u) A proverb used by the Jews, which has this meaning: You go on also, and follow your ancestors,...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Seven Woes. Seven is a sacred number and often used in Mt., as in OT ( cf. especially Isaiah 5) and Rev. The first three treat of Pharisaic teac...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Fill ye up . And ye, fill ye up.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

32. Do you then fill up the measure of your fathers. He at length concludes that they are not, in this respect, degenerate from their father...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Fill ye up then - Notwithstanding the profession you make, ye will fill up the measure of your fathers -...
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

Fill ye up then the measure, &c.— That is, the measure of your fathers' sin, (the measure fixed upon by God for punishment.) See John 13:27 ....
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

Fill ye up then ] i.e. 'Carry out your wickedness to the full, as your fathers did, by putting Me to death. You desire to do so, and I shall not hin...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Fill ye up then ... — The English fails to give the pathetic abruptness of the original: And ye — fill ye up the measure of your fathers. The t...
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

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Of their sins; for there were bounds and limits set how far they should proceed, and no further; as ye...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ver. 32. Fill ye up then the measure ] Ironice dictum. Ironic saying. It gives us to understand th...
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

See Poole on " Matthew 23:33 " .
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

“Thus you witness to yourselves, that you are sons of those who slew the prophets. Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.” Jesus then points...
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 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

Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 15:16 ; Numbers 32:14 ; Zechariah 5:6-11
Wells of Living Water Commentary

A Double-Minded Man Matthew 23:23-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "A double minded man is unstable in all his days." We have in Matthew 23:1-39 , a str...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fill ye up — A word of permission, not of command: as if he had said, I contend with you no longer: I leave you to yourselves: you have conquered:...

³² Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:32

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study 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

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 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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 23:32