7Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
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He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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. …
And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, …
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
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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