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Jesus in the Synagogue, Joakim Skovgaard

Matthew 23:13

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Matthew 23:13 (WEB)

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Fathers and councils · 10

Gregory the Great

Augustine of Hippo

John Chrysostom

  • ““Woe unto you, for ye shut up the kingdom against men; for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 13. [See note 1. “Of heaven” is omitted here, but in none of our New Testament authorities.—R.]

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Catena Aurea on Matthew

  • OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew

    Christ is truly the Son of that God Who gave the Law; after the example of the blessings pronounced in the Law, did Himself pronounce the blessings of them that are saved; and also after the cursings of the Law, He…

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  • Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew

    By “the kingdom of heaven” is meant the Scriptures, because in them the kingdom of heaven is lodged; the understanding of these is the door. Or “the kingdom of heaven” is the blessedness of heaven, and the door…

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  • OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew

    The Pharisees and the Scribes then would neither enter in, nor hear Him who said, “By me if any man enter in he shall be saved;” [John 10:9] nor would they suffer those to enter in, who were able to have believed…

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Parallel passages

  • Matthew 23:13 and Luke 11:44 share the same wording (9 words).

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  • Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.10.

  • Cited together in Origen on Matthew 23:13 (2) (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

  • Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.5.

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