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But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
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Rejecting God's Plan Hurts You
Commentators explain that when the Pharisees “rejected for themselves the counsel of God,” it means they rejected His guidance to their own harm. God’s counsel—in this case, John the Baptist's call to repent and be baptized—was for their benefit. By refusing it, they brought spiritual detriment upon themselves, not God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected, etc. It appears from Matthew 3:7 that some of the Pharisees came to John to be baptized; but still…
Rejected for themselves (ηθετησαν εις εαυτους). The first aorist active of αθετεω first seen in LXX and Polybius. Occurs in the pa…
19th Century
Anglican
Rejected the counsel of God against themselves.—The English is unhappily ambiguous, admitting the construction that the counsel wh…
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Baptist
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees and lawyers rej…
Attention now turns to the contrast between the response of the people (cf. comment on 1:17) and of their hostile leaders to John and Jesus. The ta…
16th Century
Protestant
Despised the counsel of God within themselves. The counsel of God is mentioned respectfully, as contrasted with the wicked pride of the sc…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But the Pharisees and lawyers Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read; for the Scribes and lawyers were t…
To His miracles in the kingdom of nature, Christ adds this one in the kingdom of grace: To the poor the gospel is preached. This clearly p…
