Matthew 21:30 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁰And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

Matthew 21:30 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Matthew 23:3
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Romans 2:17-25
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 28-32)

As Christ instructed his disciples by parables, which made the instructions the more easy, so sometimes he convinced his adversaries by parables, which bring reproofs more close, and make men, or ever they are aware, to reprove themselves. Thus Nathan convinced David by a parable (2 Sam. 22:1), and the woman of Tekoa surprised him in like manner, 2 Sam. 14:2: Reproving parables are appeals to the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 30)

30. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir--“I, sir.” The emphatic “I,” here, denotes the self-righteous complacency which says, “God, I thank thee that I am not as other men” (Lu 18:11). and went not--He did not “afterward repent” and refuse to go; for there was here no intention to go. It is the class that “say and do not” (Mt 23:3)--a falseness more ab…