1Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. The intemperate heat of the Jewish teachers for the support of their hierarchy, occasioned many excellent discourses of our Saviour’s for the settling of the truth, as here. I. Here, is the cavil of the scribes and Pharisees at Christ’s disciples, for eating with unwashen hands . The scribes and Pharisees were the great men of the Jewish church, men whose gai…
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