the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Staten Vertaling
Mattheüs 23:26
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Gij blinde Farizeer, reinig eerst het binnenste van den beker; opdat ook het uitwendige rein worde.
Gij blinde Farizer, reinig eerst het binnenste van den beker en den schotel, opdat ook het buitenste rein worde.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cleanse: Matthew 12:33, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 4:14, Jeremiah 13:27, Ezekiel 18:31, Luke 6:45, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Hebrews 10:22, James 4:8
Reciprocal: Exodus 29:17 - wash the Numbers 8:7 - wash their Matthew 15:20 - but Matthew 23:16 - ye blind Matthew 25:3 - foolish Luke 11:40 - fools Luke 20:47 - for John 1:24 - were of 1 Peter 3:4 - the hidden
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou blind Pharisee,.... Well might Christ call such an one a blind Pharisee, who was so scrupulously careful to cleanse his cup and platter; and yet made no conscience of filling them with what was gotten in an unjust way, and so defiled himself and them:
cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also: get food and drink in an honest way, remove all extortion and oppression out of thine hands, and luxury and intemperance from thy table; and so shall the outward cleanness of thy cup and dish, be no reproach unto thee, or testimony against thee, of thine hypocrisy. So the great concern of all men should be, inward purity; that their hearts be purified by faith in the blood of Christ, and sprinkled from an evil conscience by the same; that principles of grace and holiness be formed in them by the Spirit of God; and then their outward lives and conversations being influenced thereby, will be honourable and agreeable to their professions. Otherwise, an external reformation, or an outward show of holiness, and bare pretensions to it, without internal grace, will never be of any avail in the sight of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Cleanse first that which is within the cup and the platter - Let them be filled with the fruits of honest industry, and then the outside and the inside will be really “clean.” By this allusion to the cup and platter he taught them that it was necessary to cleanse the heart first, that the external conduct might be really pure and holy.
