1 Machabæorum 23:1

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Tunc Jesus locutus est ad turbas, et ad discipulos suos,

Parallel Translations

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Tunc Iesus locutus est ad turbas et ad discipulos suos

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Tunc Jesus locutus est ad turbas, et ad discipulos suos,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 15:10-20, Mark 7:14, Luke 12:1, Luke 12:57, Luke 20:45

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:14 - uncircumcised 1 Chronicles 24:6 - the scribe Mark 12:38 - Beware

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then spake Jesus to the multitude,.... To the common people that were about him in the temple; the high priests and elders, Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees, having left him, being all nonplussed and silenced by him: and now, lest on the one hand, the people seeing the ignorance and errors of these men detected by Christ, should be tempted to conclude there was nothing in religion, and to neglect the word and worship of God, on account of the concern these men had in it; and on the other hand, because of their great authority and influence, being in Moses's chair, lest the people should be led into bad principles and practices by them, he directs them in what they should observe them, and in what not: that they were not altogether to be rejected, nor in everything to be attended to; and warns them against their ostentation, pride, hypocrisy, covetousness, and cruelty; and, at the same time, removes an objection against himself, proving that he was no enemy to Moses, and the law, rightly explained and practised:

and to his disciples; not only the twelve, but to all that believed in him, and were followers of him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIII.

The character of the scribes and Pharisees, and directions to

the people and the disciples to receive the law from them, but

not to follow their bad example, 1-7.

The disciples exhorted to humility, 8-12.

Different woes pronounced against the scribes and Pharisees

for their intolerance, 13;

rapacity, 14;

false zeal, 15;

superstition in oaths and tithes, 16-23;

hypocrisy, 24-28.

Their cruelty, 29-32.

Their persecution of the apostles, c. Their destruction

foretold, 33-36.

Christ's lamentation over Jerusalem, 37-39.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII.

Verse Matthew 23:2. The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat — εκαθισαν. - They sat there formerly by Divine appointment: they sit there now by Divine permission. What our Lord says here refers to their expounding the Scriptures, for it was the custom of the Jewish doctors to sit while they expounded the law and prophets, (Matthew 5:1 Luke 4:20-22,) and to stand up when they read them.

By the seat of Moses, we are to understand authority to teach the law. Moses was the great teacher of the Jewish people; and the scribes, &c., are here represented as his successors.