NOTES ON MATTHEW 23
NOTES ON MATTHEW 23
In this chapter we have the Lord’s own thoughts and feelings as to the position. It has thus a very solemn and touching character, resulting in the outgoing of His heart as [p. 299] to Jerusalem, though in judgment as it must have been. There are directions for His disciples during the continuation of Moses’ seat, and the judgment of the Pharisees who were in it. The Spirit in which the disciples were to walk. All, though the spirit of it may continue, as within Israel. The Scribes and Pharisees tested by their being sent to them like the old Prophets, and the blood of all the slain in Jerusalem would come upon that generation. Her house was left desolate till grace put Psalm 118 into their heart, and into their mouth. But we are wholly among the Jews, and in Jerusalem here, and, as present judgment, by One who loved her — the Jehovah who would have gathered her children.