Mateus 23

Mateus 23

Vernon McGee - Here we see the gentle Jesus using the harshest language that is in the entire Word of God. No prophet of the Old Testament denounced sin as the Lord Jesus denounces it. (Thru The Bible with J. Vernon McGee) C H Spurgeon (Matthew Commentary) - While our Savior was speaking to the people and his disciples, the scribes and Pharisees may have again drawn near. At any rate, his next words were addressed to them: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites! ” This is the first of eight “woes”, in which the Lord Jesus both foretells the doom of the hypocrites gathered before him, and reveals the depth of his pity even for them. In seven of the eight “woes” he calls them “hypocrites”, in one he addresses them as “blind guides.” This first “woe” was pronounced against them because, as far as they could, they “shut up the kingdom of heaven against men. ” This was a terrible charge to be brought against them by him who could read their hearts, and who could truthfully say to them, “for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in .” They ought to have helped men into the kingdom; instead of doing so, they hindered those who were entering. Are there not false teachers, nowadays, who put stumbling-stones instead of stepping-stones in the way of those who are entering the kingdom of heaven? D A Carson on woe - A "woe" can be a compassionate "alas!" (24:19), a strong condemnation (23:11-21) or a combination of the two (18:17; 26:24). In Matthew 23 condemnation predominates; but it is neither vindictive nor spiteful so much as judicial. Jesus the Messiah pronounces judgment. (See Matthew)