Matthew 23:6

And love the uppermost rooms at feasts,.... Or the first and chief places to sit, or lie down on, at ordinary meals, and especially at large entertainments, where the great ones sat, as in Sa1 9:22…

The uppermost rooms at feasts - The word “rooms,” here, by no means expresses the meaning of the original. It would be correctly rendered the uppermost “places or couches” at feasts. To understand…

the uppermost rooms i. e. "the most honourable seats." The Jews, like the Romans, reclined at meals on couches, called tricliniaeach containing three seats and each seat having its special dignity.…