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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,  
7 greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’
8 aBut you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your1 Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Matthew 23:3

All therefore—that is, all which, as sitting in that seat and teaching out of that law.

they bid you observe, that observe and do—The word "therefore" is thus, it will be seen, of great importance, as limiting those injunctions which He would have them obey to what they fetched from the law itself. In requiring implicit obedience to such injunctions, He would have them to recognize the authority with which they taught over and above the obligations of the law itself—an important principle truly; but He who denounced the traditions of such teachers (Matthew 15:3) cannot have meant here to throw His shield over these. It is remarked by WEBSTER and WILKINSON that the warning to beware of the scribes is given by Mark and Luke (Mark 12:38; Luke 20:46) without any qualification: the charge to respect and obey them being reported by Matthew alone, indicating for whom this Gospel was especially written, and the writer's desire to conciliate the Jews.




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