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Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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The Hypocrisy of Honor
Commentators unanimously identify the central theme as hypocrisy. The religious leaders made a great show of honoring the prophets their ancestors had murdered by building elaborate tombs. However, this outward piety was a cover for the fact that they shared the same spirit as the murderers and were actively rejecting God's living Prophet, Jesus.
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19th Century
Anglican
Ye build the sepulchres of the prophets.—See Note on Matthew 23:29. St. Luke omits the reference, which we find in St. Ma…
Baptist
They pretended to have such regard for the holy men of the past that, being unable to honor them in person, they would set up monuments to their me…
Some lavish tombs were built for royalty and others before and during the time of Christ. It was all very well for the experts in the law to build …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Woe to youMeaning particularly the lawyers or Scribes, together with the Pharisees, and even the whole body of the p…
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, …
