Matthew 23:1
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Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:

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Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

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Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

King James Bible
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

NASB 1995
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

NASB 1977
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples:

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:

American Standard Version
Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Then Yeshua spoke with the crowds and with his disciples:

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:

Douay-Rheims Bible
THEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

English Revised Version
Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

Good News Translation
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples.

International Standard Version
Then Jesus told the crowds and his disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes, and to His disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

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Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

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Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

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Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Jesus spoke to the multitude, and to his disciples,

Weymouth New Testament
Then Jesus addressed the crowds and His disciples.

World English Bible
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

Young's Literal Translation
Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

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Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: 2“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.…

Cross References
Mark 12:38
In His teaching Jesus also said, "Watch out for the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, to receive greetings in the marketplaces,

Mark 12:39
and to have the chief seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

Luke 20:45
In the hearing of all the people, Jesus said to His disciples,

Luke 20:46
"Beware of the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, and they love the greetings in the marketplaces, the chief seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.


Treasury of Scripture

Then spoke Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

Matthew 15:10
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:

Mark 7:14
And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

Luke 12:1,57
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy…

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Matthew 23
1. Jesus admonishes the people to follow good doctrine, not bad examples
5. His disciples must beware of their ambition.
13. He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness,
34. and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem.














XXIII.

(1) To the multitude.--Now, as in Matthew 15:10, but here more fully and emphatically, our Lord not only reproves the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, but warns the multitude against them. He appeals, as it were, to the unperverted conscience of the people, as against the perversions of their guides. In some points, as, e.g., in Matthew 23:16-21, it presents a striking parallel to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:33-37). Our Lord closes His public teaching, as He began, by a protest against that false casuistry which had substituted the traditions of men for the commandments of God.

Verses 1-39. - Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her own destruction. (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) Verse 1. - Then spake Jesus. Some small portion of this discourse, the close of our Lord's public teaching, is found in Mark 12:38-40 and Luke 20:45-47 (comp. also Luke 11, 13.). It is here addressed to the multitude, and to his disciples, and seems to have been designed to comfort the former under the difficulty of having accredited teachers who were proved to have misunderstood Scripture, and were incapable of interpreting it aright. He willed to show how far they were to follow these instructors, and where it was necessary to draw a line beyond which they were not to be obeyed. Some modern critics have suggested that this discourse was not spoken at this time, but that St. Matthew has here collected into one body certain sayings of our Lord uttered at different times and places. It is far more natural to suppose that St. Matthew's statement of the occasion of this discourse is historically true, and that Christ here repeated some parts of the censure he had already, in the course of his ministry, found it necessary to pronounce. The unity of this utterance in form and essence, its logical sequence and climactic character, prove that it was delivered at one time, and was intended to form the Lord's farewell address to the wayward people who would not come unto him that they might have life. The discourse may be divided into three parts.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Then
Τότε (Tote)
Adverb
Strong's 5119: Then, at that time. From ho and hote; the when, i.e. At the time that.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

spoke
ἐλάλησεν (elalēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

to the
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

crowds
ὄχλοις (ochlois)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3793: From a derivative of echo; a throng; by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

to
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

disciples:
μαθηταῖς (mathētais)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3101: A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil.


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