Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
All therefore whatsoever - That is, all those things which they read out of the law and prophets, and all things which they teach consistently with them. This must be our Lord' s meaning: he could not have desired them to do every thing, without restriction, which the Jewish doctors taught; because himself warns his disciples against their false teaching, and testifies that they had made the word of God of none effect by their traditions. See Matthew 15:6, etc. Besides, as our Lord speaks here in the past tense - whatsoever they Have commanded, ̔ , he may refer to the teaching of a former period, when they taught the way of God in truth, or were much less corrupted than they were now.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 23:3:
Matthew 23:5
Romans 2:21
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