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If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don`t even the tax collectors do the same?
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More Than Common Courtesy
Jesus points out that even those considered sinful, like tax collectors, are friendly to their own group. Commentators explain that the Christian standard is higher. Believers are called to do "more" by extending genuine kindness and respect beyond their friends, family, or party, demonstrating a spirit superior to the world's selective civility.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And if ye salute your brethren, etc. The word salute here means to show the customary tokens of civility, or to treat with the co…
19th Century
Anglican
If you salute your brethren — The prominence of salutation in the social life of the East gives a special vividness to this precep…
Baptist
And if you salute your brethren only, what more do you do than others? Do not even the publicans do so?
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Jesus allowed no casuistry. The real direction indicated by the law is love, rich and costly, and extended even to enemies. Many take the verb and …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if you salute your brethren only This does not mean salutation by embraces or kisses, but by words, asking of ea…
The Jewish teachers understood —neighbor' to mean only those who were of their own country, nation, and religion, whom they regarded as their frien…
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13th Century
Catholic
You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor. Above, the Lord fulfilled the Law concerning permissi…
