Matthew 5:47 - Exposition

And if ye salute . It seems almost a bathos after "love." But it expresses love publicly showing itself by kindly greeting. Your brethren ; with whom you have the fellow-feeling of common origin—in this case not national, but spiritual (cf. Matthew 5:22 , note). What do you more than others? ( τί περισσὸν ποιεῖτε ); Tyndale," What singuler thynge doe ye?" Do not even the publicans? Revised Version, the Gentiles ? with the manuscripts. "The form used ( ἐθνικός ) describes character rather than mere position" (Bishop Westcott, on 3 John 1:7 ); "hethen men" (Wickliffe). So; Revised Version, the same , with the manuscripts. το , notwithstanding its occurrence in Matthew 5:46 and parallel passage, Luke 6:33 , was altered to the commoner οὕτως ποιεῖν .