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Matthew 5:23 and Matthew 5:24 are a pair of closely related verses in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. They are part of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has just announced that anger leads to murder, and anger is just as bad as murder itself. And that whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the ...
To Nolland this verse is not an attack on any particular group, but rather a continuation of the theme of God and Mammon begun at Matthew 6:24 and that verse is an attack on wasteful spending. We should put all of our resources to God, as everything is like dogs and pigs compared to him. [ 4 ]
that ye should not be offended. (Geneva Bible) that you should not be offended (taken unawares and falter, or be caused to stumble and fall away (Amplified Bible) so that you will not fall away (New International Version) so that you won't be caught by surprise (Complete Jewish Bible) to keep you from being afraid (Contemporary English Version)
It is so when it is excessive, when it is rage, and makes us lose control of ourselves. It is so, and may become a vice, when it leads us to wish evil to those who have offended us. It is resentment when it prompts us to meet and repay evil by evil. It is vengeance when it impels us to crush those who have injured us.
Chrysostom: " Then that those to whom the love of God is preferred should not be offended thereat, He leads them to a higher doctrine.Nothing is nearer to a man than his soul, and yet He enjoins that this should not only be hated, but that a man should be ready to deliver it up to death, and blood; not to death only, but to a violent and most disgraceful death, namely, the death of the cross ...
According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the Galilean cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum, and the Decapolis did not repent in response to Jesus's teaching, so Jesus declared that the wicked cities of Tyre, Sidon, Sodom and Gomorrah would have repented; it will be more bearable for the latter cities on the Judgement Day, and Capernaum, in particular, will sink down to Hades (Matthew ...
By, "let them alone," according to Lapide Christ means: let the Scribes be scandalised. Do not be bothered that they are offended with my doctrine and correction. Being blind, they do not see the light of truth, which I set before them. Rather in their error, they make sanctity consist in washing and other external things.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? The New International Version translates the passage as: Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?"