Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, etc. The Pharisees were intent only on the external act in worship. They did not …

If you bring your gift to the altar —Literally, If you should be offering. Our Lord was speaking to Jews as such, and the…

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the …

St. Augustine of Hippo: If it is not lawful to be angry with a brother, or to say to him, "Racha," or "You fool," much less is i…

Jesus gives two illustrations exposing the seriousness of anger, the first in a setting of temple worship (vv.23–24) and the second in a judicial s…

Therefore, if you shall bring your gift—this clause confirms and, at the same time, explains the preceding doctrine. It amounts to this: t…

Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar
The Jews obliged such who had done any damage to their neighbours, by…

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…