Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
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Gill's Exposition
Then answered one of the lawyers,.... Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: and so the Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city": the Scribes and lawyers were the same sort of…
Adam Clarke
Ye love the uppermost seats - Every one of them affected to be a ruler in the synagogues. See on Mat 23:5 (note).
Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in…
Cambridge Bible
uppermost seats These were places in the synagogue in a conspicuous semicircle facing the congregation, and round the bemaof the reader, Luk 14:7-11; Mat 23:6.
greetings in the markets in which they…
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