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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees,.... After he had wrought so many miracles, particularly that of feeding five thousand men; besides women and children, with five loaves and two fishes: the fame of which had reached Jerusalem, and occasioned much talk there about him: the Scribes and Pharisees, who were his inveterate enemies, hearing...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
In this chapter, we have our Lord Jesus, as the great Prophet teaching, as the great Physician healing, and as the great Shepherd of the sheep feeding; as the Father of spirits instructing them; as the Conqueror of Satan dispossessing him; and as concerned for the bodies of his people, providing for them. Here is, I. Christ's discourse with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. A very wonderful omission certainly, but it seems to have struck them as a very great crime. “They wash not their hands when they eat bread” — as if the commands...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, — They had taken a journey to come and attack him; perhaps they had been sent as a deputation to try to thwart the Saviour. What a vexation of spirit it must have been to his pure and holy mind to come into conflict with these triflers, these self-righteous, self-confident...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Our Lord had been busily engaged in healing the sick, and now these pettifoggers came round about him to try and worry him. They were a kind of mosquito swarm to Christ, had he not been a perfect man they might have worried him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, honour thy father and mother:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?.... Having observed, for some little time, the conduct of Christ and his disciples, they thought proper to take no notice of him as yet, but of them; and of them, not as transgressing any command of God, but of men; not being able to charge them with any breach of the law of God: and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. Would you have thought that full-grown men could have made it a matter of business to come from Jerusalem down into the country to talk to Christ about the fact that his disciples did not always wash their hands before they ate their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. “Why do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? “ Generally a good man is held responsible for the acts of his followers. If they cannot find fault with Christ they will find fault with his disciples, who must have been...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he answered and said unto them,.... Taking no notice of the tradition about eating bread without washing the hands, whether it was right or wrong; it being at most but an human tradition, of no moment and importance, whether it was broke or kept; he makes a very just recrimination, by putting another question to them, why do you also...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say. Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? He answered their question by asking another, in which he drew the contrast between transgressing the tradition of the elders and transgressing the commandment of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? He did not deign to answer their question, but posed them with another.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For God commanded, saying,.... That he might not be thought to suggest this without any foundation, he gives them an instance, wherein a command of God was transgressed, by the observance of their tradition: the command he refers to, stands in Exodus 20:12 and is this; Honour thy father and mother. This was a plain command of God, written with his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 5 6. But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or mother,.... That is, it was a tradition of their's, that if a man should say to his father and mother, when poor and in distress, and made application to him for sustenance, it is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, and honour not his father, or his mother, he shall be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
See note on Matthew 15:5
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye hypocrites,.... After our Lord had given so full a proof of their making void the commandments of God by their traditions, he might very justly, as he does, call them hypocrites; who pretended to so much religion and holiness, and yet scrupled not, upon occasion, to set aside a divine command; who affected so much sanctity, as to be displeased...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Now, may God save us from these two faults. The first is that of being content with the outside...