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The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:17-48

Sermon on the mount: 3. Exceeding righteousness. A teacher who compels the public to look at an unfamiliar truth, the reformer who introduces a new style of goodness, will be misinterpreted just in proportion to the advance he makes upon former ideas. Our Lord renounced explicitly, and with warmth, the goodness of the Pharisees, and the cry was at once raised against him as a destroyer of the Law, a libertine, a companion or' loose people. He thus found himself called on publicly to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:18

Cf. Luke 16:17 , "But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the Law to fail" (Revised Version). The words are so similar that the two evangelists probably record the same utterance, the difference in the form of the sentence pointing rather to an oral than a written common source. St. Luke places it in an attack on the Pharisees, who had scoffed at our Lord for his parable of the dishonest steward. Verily ; ἀμήν ( נם ) , literally, "established,"... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 5:18

Verily - Truly, certainly. A word of strong affirmation.Till heaven and earth pass - This expression denotes that the law never would be destroyed until it should be all fulfilled. It is the same as saying everything else may change; the very earth and heaven may pass away, but the law of God shall not be destroyed until its whole design has been accomplished.One jot - The word “jot,” or yod (י y), is the name of the Hebrew letter I, the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet.One tittle - The... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 5:18

Matthew 5:18. For verily I say unto you This expression, whereby our Lord often prefaces what he is about to say, always imports the great importance, as well as certain truth of it. Till heaven and earth pass away Till the whole visible frame of nature be disjointed and dissolved, one jot or one tittle “The word ιωτα , which we render jot, undoubtedly answers to the Hebrew letter י , jod, whence the English word here seems to be derived, and which, being the least letter of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:17-20

39. A right attitude to the law (Matthew 5:17-20)In a lengthy section that runs through to the end of the chapter, Jesus points out that it is not good enough merely to follow the teachings of the scribes and Pharisees. Realizing that people may think he is in some way opposed to the law of Moses, Jesus explains at the outset that this is not so. He does not abolish the Old Testament or overthrow its authority. On the contrary he gives it fuller meaning. He is its goal, and it finds its... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 5:18

verily. Greek. amen . Used only by the Lord. Same as Hebrew. 'amen, preserved in all languages. Should be so given at the beginning of sentences. Always (except once) double in John; twenty-five times. with the earth. (See notes on Matthew 6:9 , Matthew 6:10 .) earth = the earth. App-129 . jot = yod . Greek. iota . Occurs only here. The smallest Hebrew letter (= Y). The Massorites numbered 66,420. tittle = the merest ornament. Not the difference between two similar Hebrew letters, e.g.... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 5:18

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.Jots ... tittles ... were the minutest markings and characters, forming parts of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Christ here expressed full confidence in the Old Testament with the strong warning that it should never be disparaged or set at naught. The New Testament teaches that all of the prophecies of the Old Testament shall indeed be... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 5:17-20

Matthew 5:17-20. Think not that I am come to destroy, &c.— Because the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ concerning happiness was contrary to that which the Jews were accustomed to hear, and which their preachers pretended to derive from the prophets, whose descriptions of the glory of the Messiah's kingdom they understood in a literal sense; also because he was about to give explications of the moral precepts, of very different tenor from those which the Scribes and Pharisees commonlygave,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Matthew 5:18

18. For verily I say unto you—Here, for the first time, does that august expression occur in our Lord's recorded teaching, with which we have grown so familiar as hardly to reflect on its full import. It is the expression manifestly, of supreme legislative authority; and as the subject in connection with which it is uttered is the Moral Law, no higher claim to an authority strictly divine could be advanced. For when we observe how jealously Jehovah asserts it as His exclusive prerogative to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 5:17-20

Jesus’ view of the Old Testament 5:17-20It was natural for Jesus to explain His view of the Old Testament since He would shortly proceed to interpret it to His hearers. read more