the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Matthew 23:28
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It is the same with you. People look at you and think you are godly. But on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and evil.
So are ye for outwarde ye appere righteous vnto me when within ye are full of ypocrisie and iniquite.
In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
"So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
It is the same with you. People look at you and think you are good, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and evil.
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
"So you, also, outwardly seem to be just and upright to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
So ye likewise outwardly appear righteous to men; but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law.
So ye with outforth semen iust to men; but with ynne ye ben ful of ypocrisy and wickidnesse.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
That's what you are like. Outside you look good, but inside you are evil and only pretend to be good.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be good and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah.
Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
So you also from without appear to the sons of men as righteous, but within you are full of unrighteousness and hypocrisy.
So ye also, outwardly, appear to men as righteous; but within, ye are full of iniquity and hypocrisy.
Euen so, yee also outwardly appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.
Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
As men look at you, you seem to be good and right but inside you are full of sin. You pretend to be someone you are not.
So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.
Even so, from the outside you appear to men to be righteous, but from within you are full of iniquity and hypocrisy.
Thus, ye also, outside, indeed, appear to men, righteous, but, within, are full, of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Euen so, ye also, outwardly appeare ryghteous vnto men: But within, ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.
In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.
In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
In the same way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
So you also indeed outwardly appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Euen so are ye also: Outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of ypocrisye and iniquyte.
just so ye put on an air of probity in the sight of men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
That's the way y'all appear to people. You look good on the outside, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and rebellion.
"So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
In this way, you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye also: Matthew 23:5, 1 Samuel 16:7, Psalms 51:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Jeremiah 17:10, Luke 16:15, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13
but: Matthew 12:34, Matthew 12:35, Matthew 15:19, Matthew 15:20, Mark 7:21-23
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:14 - the bones of men Matthew 6:1 - to be Luke 11:44 - for Luke 13:15 - Thou hypocrite Acts 23:3 - thou whited Romans 3:13 - throat Galatians 6:12 - as desire Colossians 2:23 - a show 2 Timothy 3:5 - a form James 3:17 - hypocrisy 1 Peter 2:1 - hypocrisies Revelation 3:2 - thy works
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous,.... By making broad their phylacteries, enlarging the borders of their garments, praying long prayers, compassing sea and land to make one proselyte, paying tithes of all manner of herbs, and cleansing the outside of the cup and platter, and doing all their works, prayers, fastings, and alms deeds, to be seen of men. This is the accommodation of the above simile; by reason of these things they looked like whited sepulchres, outwardly beautiful: so these appeared outwardly righteous, they looked like righteous persons, and were not; they were what Hagar, as the Jews say, charged her mistress with being; for so they interpret these words, "her mistress was despised in her eyes", Genesis 16:4 b.
"She said, this Sarah is not secretly, what she is openly; she appears כאילו היא צדקת, "as if she was righteous" and she is not righteous.''
The same they say of c Leah. This was a misrepresentation; but the representation Christ gives of these men, is right; they were of that sort of the Pharisees, which they call הצבועין, "the dyed", or "coloured" ones: it is said of Jannai the king, that he should say to those of his family d;
"Do not be afraid of them that are Pharisees, (that are truly so,) nor of them that are not Pharisees; but of them that are, הצבועין, "dyed", for they are like to Pharisees; for their works are as the works of Zimri, (adulterers, as these were,) and they expect the reward as Phinehas.''
The gloss upon it is,
"the Pharisees hated him, because he had slain many of their wise men, and was turned Sadducee; and when he was dying, his wife was afraid of them, lest they should take away the kingdom from her sons, and she desired him to seek their favour for her; but he said unto her, do not be afraid of the Pharisees, for they are "righteous", and will not render evil to thee, nor to thy sons; for they have not sinned against them; nor of them that are not Pharisees, for they are their friends; but of "the dyed ones": as if he had said, their appearance is not according to their nature, but they are dyed without,
ואין תוכם כברם, "and their inside is not as their outside": for their works are as the work of Zimri, for they are ungodly; and they expect the reward as Phinehas, saying to men, to honour them as Phinehas.''
But this outward show and appearance of righteousness, was only "unto men", not unto God: they did not appear so to him, who is the searcher of hearts, and knows what is in man, and knew all the secret wickedness that was in them; for though they imposed upon, and deceived men, they could not deceive God; nor was their iniquity hid from Christ, who adds, "but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity": and which was evident from their ambition and vain glory, in desiring the uppermost rooms at feasts, the chief places in the synagogue, greetings in the markets, and titles of honour and grandeur; from their avarice and cruel oppression of the widows, and fatherless, under a pretence of long prayers; from their neglecting the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith, and practising extortion and excess: that saying of their's e, may be applied to themselves;
"every disciple of a wise man, שאין תוכו כברו, "whose inside is not as his outside", is no disciple of a wise man.''
And it is expressly ascribed by some of their writers to one sort of the Pharisees, of whom they say f,
"they are desirous to appear to men to be holy, but their inside is not as their outside;''
which is much the same Christ here says of them. What our Lord charges these men with, is owned by their own doctors; they say g, that
"the iniquity of those that were under the first temple, was open and manifest, but the iniquity of those that were under the second temple, was not open.''
But as the gloss says,
"the children of the second temple, רשעים היו בסתר, "were secretly wicked".''
b Bereshit Rabba, sect. 45. fol. 40. 3. Jarchi in Gert. xvi. 4. c Bereshit Rabba, sect. 71. fol. 63. 2. d T. Bab. Sota, fol. 22. 2. e T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 72. 2. f Bartenora in Misn. Sota, c. 3. sect. 4. g T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 9. 2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 23:28. Even so ye also - appear righteous unto men — But what will this appearance avail a man, when God sits in judgment upon his soul? Will the fair reputation which he had acquired among men, while his heart was the seat of unrighteousness, screen him from the stroke of that justice which impartially sends all impurity and unholiness into the pit of destruction? No. In the sin that he hath sinned, and in which he hath died, and according to that, shall he be judged and punished; and his profession of holiness only tends to sink him deeper into the lake which burns with unquenchable fire. Reader! see that thy heart be right with God.
