From extortion and excess (εξ αρπαγης κα ακρασιας). A much more serious accusation. These punctilious observers of the external ce…

The cup and the platter. The drinking cup, and the dish containing food. The Pharisees were diligent in observing all the washings and off…

The outside of the cup and of the platter — The latter word in the Greek indicates what we would call a “side-dish,” as distinct f…

The sixth “woe” is uttered against the scribes and Pharisees with regard to their eating and drinking: “You make clean the outside of the cup a…

St. Jerome: In different words, but to the same effect as before, He rebukes the hypocrisy and deception of the Pharisees: th…

Jesus begins with the metaphor of the cup and dish (v.25a), reveals his nonmetaphorical concerns at the end of v.25, then returns to his metaphor i…

For you cleanse the outer part. Our Lord elaborates on the same statement and uses a figure of speech to reproach the scribes for…

Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites
Our Lord cannot be thought to bear too hard upon these men, nor does …

The scribes and Pharisees were enemies of the gospel of Christ, and therefore of the salvation of people's souls. It is bad to keep away from Chris…

After He instructed the disciples and the multitudes about the caution they should have regarding the Jews' doctrine, He now directs His words to t…