Shall exceed (περισσευση πλειον). Overflow like a river out of its banks and then Jesus adds "more" followed by an unexpressed abl…

Your righteousness. Your holiness, your views of the nature of righteousness, and your conduct and lives. Unless you are more hol…

Shall exceed —Better, Shall abound more than.

Scribes and Pharisees —Here, for the first time, th…

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:…

St. Hilary of Poitiers: Here He makes a beautiful entrance to a teaching beyond the works of the Law, declaring to the Apostle…

And that teaching, far from being more lenient, is nothing le than perfection . The Pharisees and teachers of the law were among the most punctilio…

Unless your righteousness shall be more abundant. He takes a passing notice of the Scribes, who were laboring to tarnish the doct…

For I say to you
These words are directed, not to the true disciples of Christ in general, or to his apostles in par…

Let no one suppose that Christ allows his people to trifle with any commands of God's holy law. No sinner partakes of Christ's justifying righteous…

For I tell you, that unle your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees. Above, the Lord showed that it…