Matthew 5:20 ESV

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 5:1-48

In the three chapters beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestive, "Happy." That marks the divine will for man. It also announces that human happiness is conditioned in character. A sevenfold happiness is named. Such character is contradictory to the spirit of every age apart from the Kingship of God, and will result in "persecution." So the King adds an eighth... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 5:1-42

The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:1-42 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of people and among them His own disciples. As He looked into those hungry faces He saw the same needs there, that we would see in any audience today. The one yearning of their hearts was that they might find happiness. They had failed. Many thought that wealth would make them happy. They had been... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:20

THE FAILURE OF THE PHARISEES‘For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ Matthew 5:20 Though many of the Pharisees, and more especially the scribes and other chief men among them, were hypocrites, whited sepulchres, fair to look upon, but within full of all uncleanness; yet there were some who really endeavoured to keep the law of God. How was it that these also came... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-20

The Permanence of the Law And The Warning To Observe It Truly So As To Experience A Fuller Righteousness (5:17-20). Having spoken to His disciples of a life which acts as a preservative in the world, and which abounds in ‘good works’ which glorify and reveal God because of the love that they reveal, a love that shows them to be ‘sons of God’ and to be imbued with the righteousness of God (Matthew 5:3-16), Jesus commences this central section of His sermon by declaring that they are therefore... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-48

THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. THE FULFILMENT OF THE INSTRUCTION OF YHWH AND OF THE PROPHETIC HOPES (5:17-7:12). Having revealed how God has worked in His disciples in a life-transforming way in Matthew 5:3-9, and having shown them that they are to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world in Matthew 5:13-16, Jesus now goes into detail about what that will involve, and how it will lead up to the final consummation, that is to the fulfilment of the Law (the Torah - The Instruction of God)... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:19-20

a “Whoever therefore shall loose (relax, treat lightly, render ineffective) one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, b Will be called least in the Kingly Rule of Heaven, a But whoever shall do and teach them, b He will be called great in the Kingly Rule of Heaven. a For I say to you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, b You will in no way enter into the Kingly Rule of Heaven.” Note that the first ‘a b’ and the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-20

Matthew 5:17 to Matthew 6:18 . Righteousness, Legal and Real.— After laying down the principle that the Law is not destroyed or annulled, but developed and transcended ( Matthew 5:17-Proverbs :), Jesus applies it to ( a) the teaching of the Scribes ( Matthew 5:21-Galatians :), ( b) the life of the Pharisees ( Matthew 6:1-Job :). Matthew 5:17-Proverbs : . On the attitude of Jesus towards the OT see pp. 663, 666f., also M’ Neile in Cambridge Biblical Essays, pp. 216ff.; Kent, Life and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 5:20

I am so far from giving a liberty to the violation of my Father’s law, (as the scribes and Pharisees may possibly suggest), that I assure you that unless your obedience to it exceed that obedience which the scribes and Pharisees teach you, and themselves practise, you shall never come into heaven. What the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was we cannot better learn than from St. Paul, who was himself a Pharisee, and bred up at the feet of Gamaliel, a great doctor amongst them, Acts... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 5:17-20

CRITICAL NOTESGENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTThe aim and contents of the “Sermon.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and power; it stands alone as the grand charter of the commonwealth of heaven; or, to keep the simple title the Evangelist himself suggests (Matthew 4:23), it is “the gospel (or good news) of the kingdom.” To understand it aright we must keep this in mind, avoiding the easy method of treating it as a mere series... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:20

Matthew 5:20 It is of the greatest possible importance that we understand, as accurately as we can, what is the nature of that righteousness which God accepts from us. For heaven is only for the righteous; all the promises arc to the righteous; it is the righteous man's prayer that availeth much. Our Lord's description of the righteousness which is required of us is this: it is an "exceeding righteousness;" it is a righteousness in excess of the righteousness of the most scrupulous moralist. I.... read more

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 5:1-48

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 5:1-42

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-48

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:19-20

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 5:20

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:20

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