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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. They loved to be called Rabbi, learned Doctors of the law. Any title that made them appear great was very sweet to them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,.... As they are all along called by Matthew; though only here by Luke. The Vulgate Latin only reads, "woe unto you", leaving out all the rest: but the whole is retained in all the Oriental versions; for ye are as graves which appear not; being covered with grass; "or which were not marked", as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. Nobody but Christ knew how base they were. They were fair to look upon, but he knew that they were villainously hypocritical, and he therefore denounced them. Ah, dear friends, the great matter is to have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then answered one of the lawyers,.... Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: and so the Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city": the Scribes and lawyers were the same sort of persons who were interpreters of the law, and equally tenacious of the traditions of the elders Christ had referred to, as the Pharisees, and in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. There was no great difference between the scribes and Pharisees and the lawyers, as this man evidently perceived, and as our Lord also soon confirmed by pronouncing upon them the same kind of “Woe” that he had pronounced upon the other false teachers.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said, woe unto you also, ye lawyers,.... Christ was so far from calling back what he had said or suggested, that he repeats and confirms it, and more particularly names them, and enlarges on their evil practices: for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers; [See...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Their regulations as to moral and ceremonial observances were like huge faggots or crushing burdens bound together, and made into a weight intolerable for any man to carry. Many of these...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Woe unto you,.... Meaning particularly the lawyers or Scribes, together with the Pharisees, and even the whole body of the people, who in general were of the cast and complexion here described: for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets; [See comments on Matthew 23:29] and your fathers killed them; the prophets; "or whom your fathers killed", as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophet, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. They pretended to have such regard for the holy men of the past that, being unable to honour them in person, they would set up monuments...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers,.... Or "ye bear witness, and ye allow"; that is, they both witnessed that their fathers killed the prophets, and they consented to what they did, and approved of their actions: for they indeed killed them; it must be owned, and not their sons: and ye build their sepulchres; which was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore also said the wisdom of God,..... The Syriac version only reads "wisdom"; by which seems to be meant not the perfection of God's wisdom: though it is usual with the Jews to represent the divine perfections as speaking, as the justice and mercy of God. They say (b), that "when the holy blessed God sought to make Hezekiah the Messiah, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shalt slay and persecute: that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple:...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That the blood of all the prophets,.... The same with "all the righteous blood", or the blood of all the righteous men, in Matthew 23:35, which was shed from the foundation of the world: for there were prophets from the beginning, which prophesied of Christ, Lu 1:70 and whose blood was shed very early; for Abel, the son of the first man, and who...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From the blood of Abel,.... "Righteous Abel", as in Matthew 23:35 and so read the Arabic version here, and two manuscripts in the Bodleian library, and three of Stephens's copies; the Persic version renders it, "innocent Abel": he is mentioned because he was the first man that was slain, and he was slain because of his righteousness. Unto the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. This “Woe” is similar to that pronounced upon the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, and it was a terrible charge to be brought against them by him who could read their hearts, and who could truthfully say...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Woe unto you lawyers,.... Who are particularly addressed again in distinction from the Pharisees, though much the same things are said to them both in Matthew 23:13 for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; of the Scriptures, of the law, and the prophets, and the true interpretation of them, and especially of such places as refer to the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And as he said these things unto them,.... Denounced the above woes upon them, charging them with the above crimes, and threatening them with divine vengeance: the Scribes and Pharisees began to urge him vehemently; to fall upon him with their tongues, and express great rage, wrath, and virulence against him: and to provoke him to speak of many...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he said these tidings unto them, the scribe, and Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. Thus they proved the truth of the accusations that he had brought against them; but all their plots and traps...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Laying wait for him,.... To ensnare and entangle him, watching his words, observing what he said, and laying hold thereon: and seeking to catch something out of his mouth; like beasts of prey, or hunters, that were watching for their prey; or lay ambush, diligently looking out, and greedily catching at every thing they thought for their purpose:...