Matthew 23:25-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter… I. A SERIOUS CHARGE. 1. A too late recognition of goodness which, when living, was ignored or persecuted. 2. A pretended veneration of the characters of the pious dead. 3. In truth a signalizing of their own goodness. II. A FALSE DEFENCE. 1. Their character belied their profession — persecutors of Jesus would hardly have been defenders of Isaiah, etc. 2. Betrayed great ignorance of their own character. III. A SOLEMN VERDICT. 1. Pronounced guilty of the righteous blood shed by their party. 2. Hypocrites for pretending a veneration for departed worth while they persecuted living goodness. Parallel Verses KJV: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. |
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