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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:1-12

Matthew 23:1-2 Kings : . Warnings to the People and the Disciples. Matthew 23:2 f. Loisy regards this as an interpolation (by a Judaising redactor) out of harmony with the attack that follows. Holtzmann thinks it is Mt.’ s, breathing special respect for the Law, like Matthew 5:17 ff., but irreconcilable with Matthew 15:3-2 Chronicles :. But, as Pfleiderer puts it, we must “ admit that in the attitude of Jesus towards the Mosaic Law different expressions which cannot be reconciled stand side... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 23:1-3

Our Lord having now done with the Pharisees, turneth his discourse to the more docible people, who (as we heard before) heard him attentively and gladly, Mark 12:37; Luke 19:48. Our Saviour foresaw that some unwary hearers might make two ill uses of what he had spoke against the scribes and Pharisees. 1. Some might report him an enemy to the law, the interpreters of which the Pharisees were. 2. Others might contemn the authority of the law, because he had represented these men, in whose hand... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 23:1-12

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 23:1. Then spake Jesus.—The day of grace is over for the leaders of the people; but for the people themselves there may still be hope; so the Lord of the temple turns to the multitude, the general throng of worshippers, mingled with whom were several of His own disciples, and solemnly warns them against their spiritual guides. There is every reason to suppose that many of the scribes and Pharisees were within hearing; for when He has finished what He has to say to the... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Matthew 23:2

sit in Cf. Ezra 7:6; Ezra 7:25; Ezra 7:26. Jesus' disciples were to honour the law, but not the hypocritical teachers of it. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 23:1-39

Matthew's gospel twenty-three. Jesus has been at the temple and He was challenged as to His authority by these priests, and then He was asked questions by the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees. And then Jesus finally asked them a question. "What do you think of Christ, whose son is He?" And when they said, "the son of David." He said, "How can He be the son of David, when David by the spirit called Him Lord?" And no father would ever call his son "lord". That's just so totally against the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 23:1-39

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 also chairs of gold. The highpriest was the president: he sat in the middle, with thirty five chairs on his right hand, and thirty five on his left. The number had its origin from the seventy elders consecrated by Moses. Whether our Lord meant to say that the scribes and pharisees were fairly put into power, or that they had usurped authority, is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 23:1-7

Matthew 23:1-7The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Christ’s reproaches of PhariseesThere must be some just, reasonable, and great cause of our Lord’s indignation, and this we find was an accumulation of great wickedness in these men, which received aggravations(1) from their pretences to greater sanctity than others;(2) from their having greater opportunities of being better than others;(3) because they, being many of them in public places, their practice must have a bad influence... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 23:2

2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: Ver. 2. Sit in Moses’ chair ] i.e. Have the ordinary office of teaching the people, but quo iure, by what law, he questioneth not. The priests and Levites should have done it, but the Scribes and Pharisees had for present taken it upon them, stepped into the chair, and there set themselves, a Romans 2:20 . So Hildebrand and his successors have invaded Peter’s chair, as they call the see of Rome; but what said an ancient? Non... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 23:2

Nehemiah 8:4-Ruth :, Malachi 2:7, Mark 12:38, Luke 20:46 Reciprocal: Exodus 18:13 - General Deuteronomy 19:17 - General Deuteronomy 33:10 - They shall teach 1 Chronicles 24:6 - the scribe Ezra 7:11 - a scribe Ezra 7:25 - teach ye Nehemiah 8:1 - Ezra Song of Solomon 5:7 - the keepers Zechariah 11:16 - which Matthew 5:20 - exceed Matthew 7:29 - and not Matthew 15:1 - scribes Matthew 16:1 - Pharisees Matthew 21:33 - husbandmen Mark 1:44 - show Luke 11:46 - Woe John 7:19 - yet Titus 3:1 - to be... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 23:2

Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:The scribes sit in the chair of Moses — That is, read and expound the law of Moses, and are their appointed teachers. read more