1Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
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And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: …
Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples, …
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We find not Christ, in all his preaching, so severe upon any sort of people as upon these scribes and Pharisees ; for the truth is, nothing is more directly opposite to the spirit of the gospel than the temper and practice of that generation of men, who were made up of pride, worldliness, and tyranny, under a cloak and pretence of religion; yet these were the idols and darlings of the people, who…
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