And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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Gill's Exposition
And he said unto them,.... That is, Jesus said unto them, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it: "ye are they which justify yourselves before men": from the sins of injustice, unfaithfulness,…
They derided him - The fact that they were “covetous” is here stated as the reason why they derided him, or, as it is literally, “they turned up the nose at him.” They contemned or despised the…
Adam Clarke
They derided him - Or rather, They treated him with the utmost contempt. So we may translate the original words εξεμυκτηριζον αυτον, which literally signifies, in illum emunxerunt - but must not be…
We mistake if we imagine that the design of Christ's doctrine and holy religion was either to amuse us with notions of divine mysteries or to entertain us with notions of divine mercies. No, the…
Cambridge Bible
14-31. Dives and Lazarus, a Parable to the Covetous, Preceded By Rebukes To The Pharisees.
14. who were covetous Rather, lovers of money, 2Ti 3:3. The charge is amply borne out by the references in…
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