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Settle Disputes Quickly
Jesus uses the practical example of a lawsuit to teach a powerful lesson. Commentators like Charles Spurgeon note that it's often wiser to accept "a lean settlement" than to pursue a "fat lawsuit." The core message is to be eager for peace and seek swift, amicable resolutions to conflicts, even if it means conceding a point. This practical wisdom avoids the escalating costs—financial, emotional, and relational—of prolonged strife.
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Albert Barnes
On Matthew 5:25–26
18th Century
Theologian
Agree with your adversary quickly. This is still an illustration of the sixth commandment. To be in hostility, to go to law, to be litigio…
AT Robertson
On Matthew 5:25
Agree with (ισθ ευνοων). A present periphrastic active imperative. The verb is from ευνοος (friendly, kindly disposed). "Mak up wi…
Charles Spurgeon
On Matthew 5:25–26
19th Century
Preacher
While you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you b…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Matthew 5:25
Jesus again urges haste to settle matters with an offended adversary while still “with him on the way” to court. In the ancient world debtors were …
John Calvin
On Matthew 5:25
16th Century
Theologian
Be agreed with your adversary. Christ appears to go further, and to exhort to reconciliation not only those who have injured their brother…
John Gill
On Matthew 5:25
17th Century
Pastor
Agree with your adversary quickly
These words are not to be understood in an allegorical sense, as if "the adversary…
Matthew Henry
On Matthew 5:21–26
17th Century
Minister
The Jewish teachers had taught that nothing except actual murder was forbidden by the sixth commandment. In this way, they explained away its spiri…
Thomas Aquinas
On Matthew 5:20–26
13th Century
Philosopher
For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees. Above, the Lord showed that …