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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don`t know it."
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The Danger of Hidden Corruption
Jesus compares the Pharisees to unmarked graves. Commentators explain that just as someone could unknowingly walk over a hidden grave and become ritually unclean, people interacting with the Pharisees were being spiritually corrupted by their hidden hypocrisy. Their unseen wickedness was a source of defilement for the community.
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The tombs which appear not (τα μνηνεια τα αδηλα). These hidden graves would give ceremonial defilement for seven days ([Reference …
19th Century
Anglican
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!—The better manuscripts give simply, Woe to you, Pharisees, (See N…
Baptist
Nobody but Christ knew how base they were. They were fair to look upon, but he knew that they were villainously hypocritical, and he therefore deno…
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In Jesus’ estimation, the “Pharisees” (see comment on Mk 2:15–16) had lost the heart of their religion. In vv.41–42b Jesus offers a positive correc…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites As they are all along called by Matthew; though only here by Luke. The …
Presbyterian
We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, …
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