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Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees

1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples,
2 saying: a“The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.  
3 Therefore whatever they tell you1 to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for athey say, and do not do.  
4 aFor they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.  
5 But all their works they do to abe seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.  
6 aThey love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Matthew 23:3

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.




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