Mt 23:1-39. DENUNCIATION OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES--LAMENTATION OVER JERUSALEM, AND FAREWELL TO THE TEMPLE. ( = Mr 12:38-40; Lu 20:45-47).

      For this long and terrible discourse we are indebted, with the exception of a few verses in Mark and Luke, to Matthew alone. But as it is only an extended repetition of denunciations uttered not long before at the table of a Pharisee, and recorded by Luke (Lu 11:37-54), we may take both together in the exposition.

      Denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees (Mt 23:1-36).

      The first twelve verses were addressed more immediately to the disciples, the rest to the scribes and Pharisees.

      1. Then spake Jesus to the multitude--to the multitudes, "and to his disciples."

JFB.