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All = All things. This shows that the words following are not a command, for the whole chapter is taken up with a denunciation of the very things that they thus bade. Later (Mat_27:20-23) they "bade" the People to ask Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
that. Omit this word as not being in the Greek, or required by the Figure of speech Ellipsis.
Observe and do = ye observe and do. The second person plural is exactly the same in the Indicative and Imperative, and nothing can determine which is the Mood but the context: and the Structure determines its meaning.
observe. Inwardly.
do. Outwardly.
but. Marking the contrast between "ye do"and"do ye not". after = according to. Greek. kata. App-104.
they say = they say [ought to be done], but they do not do the works themselves.