Matthew 23:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

Matthew 23:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 3:1
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
1 Corinthians 1:12-13
Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. …
1 Peter 5:3
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Luke 22:32
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Matthew 23:10
Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

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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 t…

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

(vv. 8)

8. But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Master--your Guide, your Teacher.