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Mat 23:1-39. Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees - Lamentation over Jerusalem, and farewell to the Temple. ( = Mar 12:38-40; Luk 20:45-47).
For this long and terrible discourse we are indebted, with the exception of a few verses in Mark and Luke, to Matthew alone. But as it is only an extended repetition of denunciations uttered not long before at the table of a Pharisee, and recorded by Luke (Luk 11:37-54), we may take both together in the exposition.
Denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees (Mat 23:1-36).
The first twelve verses were addressed more immediately to the disciples, the rest to the scribes and Pharisees.
Then spake Jesus to the multitude - to the multitudes, “and to his disciples.”