1 Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the evil examples, of the Scribes and Pharisees.
5 His disciples must beware of their ambition.
13 He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness,
34 and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem.

15:10 *etc: Mr 7:14 Lu 12:1,57 20:45

2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

Ne 8:4-8 Mal 2:7 Mr 12:38 Lu 20:46

3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

whatsoever. 15:2-9 Ex 18:19,20,23 De 4:5 5:27 17:9-12 2Ch 30:12 Ac 5:29, Ro 13:1

for. 21:30 Ps 50:16-20 Ro 2:19-24 2Ti 3:5 Tit 1:16

4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

23 11:28-30 Lu 11:46 Ac 15:10,28 Ga 6:13 Re 2:24

5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

all. 6:1-16 2Ki 10:16 Lu 16:15 20:47 21:1 Joh 5:44 7:18 12:43 Php 1:15 2:3 2Th 2:4

they make. De 6:8 Pr 3:3 6:21-23

the borders. 9:20 Nu 15:38,39 De 22:12

6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

20:21 Pr 25:6,7 Mr 12:38,39 Lu 11:43 *etc: Lu 14:7-11 20:46,47 Ro 12:10 Jas 2:1-4 3Jo 1:9

7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Rabbi. Joh 1:38,49 3:2,26 6:25 20:16

8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

be. 10 2Co 1:24 4:5 Jas 3:1 1Pe 5:3

one. 10:25 17:5 26:49 Joh 13:13,14 Ro 14:9,10 1Co 1:12,13 3:3-5

all. Lu 22:32 Eph 3:15 Col 1:1,2 Re 1:9 19:10 22:9

9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

call. 2Ki 2:12 6:21 13:14 Job 32:21,22 Ac 22:1 1Co 4:15 1Ti 5:1,2 Heb 12:9

for. 6:8,9,32 Mal 1:6 Ro 8:14-17 2Co 6:18 1Jo 3:1

10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

20:26,27 Mr 10:43,44 Lu 22:26,27 Joh 13:14,15 1Co 9:19 2Co 4:5 11:23 Ga 5:13 Php 2:5-8

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

5:3 18:4 Job 22:29 Ps 138:6 Pr 15:33 16:18,19 29:23 Isa 57:15 Da 4:37 Lu 1:51,52 14:11 18:14 Jas 4:6 1Pe 5:5

13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

woe. 14,15,27,29 Isa 9:14,15 33:14 Zec 11:17 Lu 11:43,44

for ye shut. 21:31,32 Lu 11:52 Joh 7:46-52 9:22,24,34 Ac 4:17,18 5:28,40 Ac 8:1 13:8 1Th 2:15,16 2Ti 3:8 4:15

14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

for ye. Josephus says that this sect pretended to a more exact knowledge of the law, on which account the women were subject to them, as pretending to be dear to God.

Ex 22:22-24 Job 22:9 31:16-20 Mr 12:40 Lu 20:47 2Ti 3:6 Tit 1:10,11 2Pe 2:14,15

long. That these were long we learn from Bab. Berachoth, where we are told that the very religious prayed nine hours a day.

therefore. 33 *etc 11:24 Lu 12:48 Jas 3:1 2Pe 2:3

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

for. Ga 4:17 6:12

proselyte. Es 8:17 Ac 2:10 13:43

ye make. Joh 8:44 Ac 13:10 14:2,19 17:5,6,13 Eph 2:3

16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

ye blind. 17,19,24,26 15:14 Isa 56:10,11 Joh 9:39-41

Whosoever shall swear by the temple. 5:33,34 Jas 5:12

it is. 15:5,6 Mr 7:10-13

he is. Ga 5:3

17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Ye fools. Ps 94:8

or. 19 Ex 30:26-29 Nu 16:38,39

18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

guilty. or, debtor. 15

or bound.

19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

or. Ex 29:37 30:29

20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

and by. 1Ki 8:13,27 2Ch 6:2 7:2 Ps 26:8 132:13,14 Eph 2:22 Col 2:9

22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

by the. 5:34 Ps 11:4 Isa 66:1 Ac 7:49 Re 4:2,3

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

for. Lu 11:42

anise. Gr. [anethon,] dill. Dill is a species of plant of the pentandria digynia class, growing native in Spain and Portugal. The root is fusiform and long; stems, erect-groved, jointed, branched, and about two feet in height; leaves, doubly pinnated, sweet and odorous; flowers, flat, terminal umbels; corolla, five ovate, concave, yellow petals, with apexes inflected; germen, like that of fennel; seeds, scarcely the length of a carraway seed, but broader and flatter, of a brown colour, aromatic, sweetish odour, and warmish, pungent taste.

cummin. Gr. [kuminom] Cummin is a plant of the same class as dill: it rises eight or ten inches on a slender round procumbent, branching stem; leaves, a dark green, narrow, linear, and pointed; flowers, purple, in numerous four rayed umbels; corolla, five unequal petals, inflected, and notched at the apex; seeds, oblong, striated, of a brown colour, strong, heavy odour, and warm, bitterish taste.

the weightier. 9:13 12:7 22:37-40 1Sa 15:22 Pr 21:3 Jer 22:15,16 Ho 6:6 Mic 6:8 Ga 5:22,23

these. 5:19,20

24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

7:4 15:2-6 19:24 27:6-8 Lu 6:7-10 Joh 18:28,40

25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

for. 15:19,20 Mr 7:4 *etc: Lu 11:39,40

full. Isa 28:7,8

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

cleanse. 12:33 Isa 55:7 Jer 4:14 13:27 Eze 18:31 Lu 6:45 2Co 7:1 Heb 10:22 Jas 4:8

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

like. Isa 58:1,2 Lu 11:44 Ac 23:3

sepulchres. Nu 19:16

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

ye also. 5 1Sa 16:7 Ps 51:6 Jer 17:9,10 Lu 16:15 Heb 4:12,13

but. 12:34,35 15:19,20 Mr 7:21-23

29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

ye build. Lu 11:47,48 Ac 2:29

30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

the blood. 34,35 21:35,36 2Ch 36:15 Jer 2:30

31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

witnesses. Jos 24:22 Job 15:5,6 Ps 64:8 Lu 19:22

that. Ac 7:51,52 1Th 2:15,16

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

the measure. Ge 15:16 Nu 32:14 Zec 5:6-11

33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

serpents. 3:7 12:34 21:34,35 Ge 3:15 Ps 58:3-5 Isa 57:3,4 Lu 3:7 Joh 8:44 2Co 11:3 Re 12:9

how. 14 Heb 2:3 10:29 12:25

34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

I send. 10:16 28:19,20 Lu 11:49 24:47 Joh 20:21 Ac 1:8 1Co 12:3-11 Eph 4:8-12

prophets. Ac 11:27 13:1 15:32 Re 11:10

and wise. Pr 11:30 1Co 2:6 3:10 Col 1:28

scribes. 13:52

ye. 10:16,17 Joh 16:2 Ac 5:40 7:51,52,58,59 9:1,2 12:2 14:19 Ac 22:19,20 2Co 11:24,25 1Th 2:16 Heb 11:37

35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

upon. Ge 9:5,6 Nu 35:33 De 21:7,8 2Ki 21:16 24:4 Isa 26:21 Jer 2:30,34 26:15,23 La 4:13,14 Re 18:24

the blood of righteous. Ge 4:8 Heb 11:4 12:24 1Jo 3:11,12

unto. 2Ch 24:20-22 Zec 1:1 Lu 11:51

36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

24:34 Eze 12:21-28 Mr 13:30,31 Lu 21:32,33

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!

Jerusalem. Jer 4:14 6:8 Lu 13:34 Re 11:8

thou. 30 5:12 21:35,36 22:6 2Ch 24:21,22 Ne 9:26 Jer 2:30 26:23 Mr 12:3-6 Lu 20:11-14 Ac 7:51,52 1Th 2:15 Re 11:7 17:6

how. 2Ch 36:15,16 Ps 81:8-11 Jer 6:16,17 11:7,8 25:3-7 35:15 Jer 42:9-13 44:4 Zec 1:4

even. De 32:11,12 Ru 2:12 Ps 17:8 36:7 57:1 63:7 91:4

and ye. 22:3 Pr 1:24-31 Isa 50:2 Ho 11:2,7 Lu 14:17-20 15:28 19:14-44

38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

24:2 2Ch 7:20,21 Ps 69:24 Isa 64:10-12 Jer 7:9-14 Da 9:26 Zec 11:1,2,6 14:1,2 Mr 13:14 Lu 13:35 19:43,44 21:6,20,24 Ac 6:13,14

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.

Ye shall not. Ho 3:4 Lu 2:26-30 10:22,23 17:22 Joh 8:21,24,56 14:9,19

Blessed. 21:9 Ps 118:26 Isa 40:9-11 Zec 12:10 Ro 11:25 2Co 3:14 *etc: