Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 23

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

Matthew 23:1

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:

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Matthew 15 . 10-20

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Matthew 23:2

“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.

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Nehemiah 8 . 4-8

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Matthew 23:3

So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

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Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

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Matthew 23:5

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

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Matthew 23:6

They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,

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Matthew 23:7

the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.

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Matthew 23:8

But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.

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Matthew 23:9

And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

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Matthew 23:10

Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.

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Matthew 23:11

The greatest among you shall be your servant.

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Matthew 23:12

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

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Matthew 23:14

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Josephus says that this sect pretended to a more exact knowledge of the law , on which account the women were subject to them , as pretending to be dear to God

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long That these were long we learn from Bab. Berachoth , where we are told that the very religious prayed nine hours a day.

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

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Matthew 23:16

Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’

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Matthew 23:17

You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

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Matthew 23:18

And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’

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Matthew 23:19

You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?

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Matthew 23:20

So then, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

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Matthew 23:21

And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it.

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Matthew 23:22

And he who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the One who sits on it.

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Matthew 23:23

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

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anise Gr. בםחטןם [Strong's G432] , dill. Dill is a species of plant of the pentandria digynia class , growing native in Spain and Portugal. The root is fusiform and long; stems , erect-groved , jointed , branched , and about two feet in height; leaves , doubly pinnated , sweet and odorous; flowers , flat , terminal umbels; corolla , five ovate , concave , yellow petals , with apexes inflected; germen , like that of fennel; seeds , scarcely the length of a carraway seed , but broader and flatter , of a brown colour , aromatic , sweetish odour , and warmish , pungent taste.

cummin Gr. ךץליםןל [Strong's G2951] Cummin is a plant of the same class as dill . it rises eight or ten inches on a slender round procumbent , branching stem; leaves , a dark green , narrow , linear , and pointed; flowers , purple , in numerous four rayed umbels; corolla , five unequal petals , inflected , and notched at the apex; seeds , oblong , striated , of a brown colour , strong , heavy odour , and warm , bitterish taste.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

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Matthew 23:25

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

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Matthew 23:26

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

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Matthew 23:27

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

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Matthew 23:28

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

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Matthew 23:29

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

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Matthew 23:30

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

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Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

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Matthew 23:33

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

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Matthew 23:34

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

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Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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Matthew 23:36

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

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Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

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Matthew 23:38

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

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Matthew 23:39

For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web6 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Matthew 23:39 → Psalms 118:26
Echoes Matthew 23:12 → Proverbs 3:34
Trajectories
Abel (First Martyr), Rejection Then Exaltation (Pattern of Suffering and Glory), Stone and Cornerstone (Rejected Foundation)
Chiasms
Shaped Matthew 23:01–07
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