matthew-23:26-bsb

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 23:16-28

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 23:16. Gold of the temple.—The exact meaning of this expression is uncertain; but the probability is that it refers to money offered as a gift to God, to which the scribes and Pharisees ascribed peculiar sanctity (Mansel). See R.V., margin.Matthew 23:18. Guilty.—A debtor (R.V.) as in Matthew 23:16.Matthew 23:23. Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.—The language of Deuteronomy 12:17 seems to recognise only corn, wine, and oil, among the produce of the earth, as... 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 23:25-28

Matthew 23:25-28For ye make clean the outside of the cup. Moral ablutionBy this allusion to the cup and platter the Saviour taught that it is necessary to cleanse the heart first, that the external conduct might be pure.I. Why must we cleanse ourselves from sin?1. Because it renders us injurious to our fellow-men.2. Because it hinders prayer.3. Because it renders us offensive to God.4. Because it is destructive to ourselves.II. How may we cleanse ourselves from sin?1. Not by merely desiring to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 23:26

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Ver. 26. Cleanse first that which is within ] God loveth truth in the inwards, Psalms 51:6 ; "O Jerusalem, wash thy heart," Jeremiah 4:14 ; (not thy hands only, as Pilate did); this breeds constancy and evenness in all our outward behaviours, James 4:8 . Grace and nature both begin at the heart, at the centre, and from thence goes to the circumference. Art and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 23:26

cleanse: Matthew 12:33, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 4:14, Jeremiah 13:27, Ezekiel 18:31, Luke 6:45, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Hebrews 10:22, James 4:8 Reciprocal: Exodus 29:17 - wash the Numbers 8:7 - wash their Matthew 15:20 - but Matthew 23:16 - ye blind Matthew 25:3 - foolish Luke 11:40 - fools Luke 20:47 - for John 1:24 - were of 1 Peter 3:4 - the hidden read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 23:26

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.Ye build the tombs of the prophets — And that is all, for ye neither observe their sayings, nor imitate their actions. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 23:26

26. Cup Or drinking vessel. Platter Or dish for meats or sweetmeats. Our Lord compares these men to such utensils, which by a cleanly outside promised cleanly contents, while they contained filthy matter. read more