Matthew 5:47 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁷And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

Matthew 5:47 —

Old words in this verse

publican: — tax collector.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 6:32
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Matthew 5:20
For 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.
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Luke 10:4-5
Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. …
Matthew 10:12
And when ye come into an house, salute it.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 43-48)

We have here, lastly, an exposition of that great fundamental law of the second table, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, which was the fulfilling of the law. I. See here how this law was corrupted by the comments of the Jewish teachers, Matt. 5:43. God said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour; and by neighbour they understood those only of their own country, nation, and religion; and those only that they…

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

(vv. 47)

47. And if ye salute your brethren only--of the same nation and religion with yourselves. what do ye more than others?--what do ye uncommon or extraordinary? that is, wherein do ye excel? do not even the publicans so?--The true reading here appears to be, “Do not even the heathens the same?” Compare Mt 18:17, where the excommunicated person is said to be “as an heathen man and a publican.”