matthew-23:38,-matthew-23:39

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Matthew 23:1-99

Matthew 23 THIS CHAPTER RECORDS his burning words. In a few days the multitude, influenced by these men, would be shouting for His death. Their responsibility and guilt was greatly increased by this warning the Lord gave them as to the true character of their leaders. He began by according to them the place they claimed as the exponents of the law of Moses. Therefore the people were to keep and do the law as they heard it from their lips. Yet they were to carefully avoid taking them as... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Matthew 23:37-39

The lament: v. 37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! v. 38. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. v. 39. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see Me henceforth till ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord! A most touching cry of merciful solicitude, wrung from a heart... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Matthew 23:1-39

SEVENTH SECTIONFINAL JUDJEMENT OF CHRIST UPON THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES. CHRIST OF HIS OWN ACCORD LEAVES THE TEMPLE23–24:1( Matthew 23:34-39, Scripture Lesion for St. Stephen’s Day.)1Then spake Jesus to the multitude [multitudes, τοῖς ὄχλοις], and to his disciples,A. The Reproof generally. Matthew 23:2-7. (The law, Matthew 23:3; the inconsistency and falsehood, Matthew 23:3 : “but do not;” the traditional statutes, Matthew 23:4; the hypocritical sanctimoniousness and unholy ambition, Matthew... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Matthew 23:27-39

Matthew THE KING’S FAREWELL Mat_23:27 - Mat_23:39 . If, with the majority of authorities, we exclude Mat_23:14 from the text, there are, in this chapter, seven woes, like seven thunders, launched against the rulers. They are scathing exposures, but, as the very word implies, full of sorrow as well as severity. They are not denunciations, but prophecies warning that the end of such tempers must be mournful. The wailing of an infinite compassion, rather than the accents of anger, sounds in... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 23:27-39

Judgment and Lament Matthew 23:27-39 True goodness recognizes and rewards good in the living; while the evil-minded cannot, or will not, believe that the people whom they meet daily are purely and sincerely good. They pride themselves on what they would have done if they had lived in the great days of the past, but they miss the opportunities which are always ready to hand. In this they judge and condemn themselves. How sad is this lament over Jerusalem! The yearning love which longed to... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

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 reached His verdict, He pronounced sentence. It is awful in its majesty, terrible in its resistless force. With what relentless persistence and unfailing accuracy He revealed the true condition of the leaders of the people, their occupation with externalities and pettiness, and their neglect of inward facts and weightier matters. Here, indeed, if... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

Words in the Temple: Exhortation to His Disciples And Indictment of The Scribes and Pharisees (23:1-39). It is an open question as to whether chapter 23 should be seen as part of the ‘fifth dissertation’ made up of chapters 23-25 (see introduction), or whether it should be seen as a connecting passage between 19-22 and 24-25 made up of secondary dissertations on their own (compare chapter 11; Matthew 16:17-28 for similar dissertations). The fact that it forms a separate chiasmus on its own... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:37-39

Judgment Is To Come On That Generation Who Will Slay Jesus and His Followers In The Form Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem (23:37-39). Jesus finishes with a lament over Jerusalem. It is not just the Scribes and Pharisees who have rejected Him, it is Jerusalem. They had been singled out because of their claim to religious significance, but in the end it was the whole of Jerusalem which had turned its back on Him. Time and again He had made His plea to them (note how His words assume a number of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:38

“Behold, your house is left to you desolate.” And because they had refused Him there was nowhere else to turn. They were so intense about their possession of God’s house that they could not see beyond it, and the sad consequence would be its desolation. It would both lose its significance and be destroyed, for God had deserted it. Note that it is the desertion that is emphasised here Compare ‘I have forsaken My house, I have cast off My heritage’ (Jeremiah 12:7). It was His earthly... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:37-39

Matthew 23:37-Malachi : . Lament over Jerusalem ( Luke 13:34 f.*). Matthew 23:37 may be part of the utterance ascribed by Jesus to the “ Wisdom of God.” If not, Jesus is referring not so much to His earlier visits to Jerusalem as to His desire (when in Galilee) to come to the mother city and fold its people into discipleship and protection in the coming judgment. Matthew 23:38 . your house: i.e. the Temple, symbolising the city and the nation. The Divine Presence, rejected in Jesus, is... read more

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Matthew 23:1-99

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Matthew 23:37-39

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Matthew 23:1-39

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Matthew 23:27-39

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 23:27-39

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:1-39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:37-39

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:38

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:37-39

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