You have heard. Or, this is the common interpretation among the Jews. Jesus proceeds here to comment on some prevailing opinions among the…

By them of old time — There is no reasonable doubt that the alternative reading, to them of old time, is correct. The gra…

Antiquity is often pleaded as an authority, but our King makes short work of them of old time. He begins with one of their alterat…

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

Jesus’ contemporaries had heard that the law given their ancestors forbade murder and that the murderer must be brought to “judgment.” But Jesus in…

You have heard that it was said. This sentence, and those which immediately follow, are connected with what we have just considered: for o…

You have heard
That is, from the Scriptures being read to them, and the explanations of the ancients, which were cal…

The Jewish teachers had taught that nothing except actual murder was forbidden by the sixth commandment. In this way, they explained away its spiri…

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