secundum Matthæum 11:38

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Pharisæus autem cœpit intra se reputans dicere, quare non baptizatus esset ante prandium.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Pharisæus autem cœpit intra se reputans dicere, quare non baptizatus esset ante prandium.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Pharisaeus autem videns miratus est quod non baptizatus esset ante prandium.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he marvelled: Matthew 15:2, Matthew 15:3, Mark 7:2-5, John 3:25

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:11 - wash himself Ecclesiastes 10:13 - beginning Matthew 15:11 - that which goeth Matthew 15:20 - but Mark 7:4 - except Hebrews 6:2 - the doctrine

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the Pharisee saw it,.... That Christ laid himself down on one of the couches and began to eat:

he marvelled; that so great a prophet as he was, and a man of so much religion and holiness, should show no regard to a common custom with them, and which was one of the traditions of their elders, and which they put upon a level with the commands of God. The Vulgate Latin version, and so Beza's most ancient copy, and another exemplar, read, "he began to say, thinking" (or judging) "within himself": he was "moved" at it, as the Persic version renders it; he was filled with astonishment and indignation,

that he had not first washed before dinner; especially since he had been in a crowd of people, Luke 11:29 for the Pharisees not only washed their hands, by immersing them up to the elbow before eating; but when they had been at market, or among any large number of people, or had reason to think they had, or feared they had touched any unclean person or thing, they immersed themselves all over in water: and which is the sense of the word βαπτιζομαι, here used; Luke 11:29- :,

Luke 11:29- : and

Luke 11:29- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saw it - Saw that he sat immediately down without washing.

Marvelled - Wondered. Was amazed. It was so unusual, and in his view so improper.

Had not first washed - He wondered particularly, as he had been among a mixed multitude, and they esteemed the “touch” of such persons polluting. They never ate, therefore, without such washing. The origin of the custom of washing with so much formality “before” they partook of their meals was that they did not use, as we do, knives and forks, but used their hands only. Hence, as their hands would be often in a dish on the table, it was esteemed proper that they should be washed clean before eating. Nor was their impropriety in the thing itself, but the Pharisees made it a matter of ceremony; they placed no small part of their religion in such ceremonies; and it was right, therefore, that our Lord should take occasion to reprove them for it. Compare Mark 7:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 38. First washed — See Clarke on Mark 7:2-4.