6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
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I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
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 he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, …
Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. …
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. …
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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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