43Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
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Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, …
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, …
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, …
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-54)Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Matt. 23:1-39); for what he said in public and private was of a piece . He would not say that in a corner which he durst not repeat and stand to in the great congregation; nor would he give those reproofs to any sort of sinners in gen…
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