20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. …
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. …
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. …
Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-20)Those to whom Christ preached, and for whose use he gave these instructions to his disciples, were such as in their religion had an eye, 1. To the scriptures of the Old Testament as their rule, and therein Christ here shows them they were in the right: 2. To the scribes and the Pharisees as their example , and therein Christ here shows them they were in the wrong; for, I. The rule which Christ cam…
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