Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Woe unto you, you blind guides,.... Meaning the same persons, the Scribes and Pharisees, as before, though not named, who pretended to be "guides of the blind", Rom 2:19 but were them selves blind,…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Ye compass sea and land - You take every means, spare no pains, to gain proselytes. Proselyte - One that comes over from a foreign nation, religion, or sect to us - a convert. Among the Jews there…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
compass "go about," "traverse." The word is used of our Lord's "circuits" in Galilee, ch. Mat 4:23; Mat 9:35.
proselyte Literally, one who approaches, hence, "a worshipper," (cp. Heb 10:1), "a…
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