Matthew 23:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Whatsoever

For

General references

Deuteronomy 19:17

Bible References

Whatsoever

Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.

Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say, give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do it.

And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.

For

And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

General references

Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;