Matthew 23:6

and love to sit vppermooste at feastes and to have the chefe seates in the synagoges

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

In Context

5All their workes they do for to be sene of me. They set abroade their philateries and make large borders on there garmetes

7and gretinges in the marketes and to be called of men Rabi.

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Cross References

Mark 12:38And he sayde vnto them in his doctrine: beware of the Scribes which love to goo in longe clothinge: and love salutacions in the market places

Luke 14:7He put forthe a similitude to the gestes when he marked how they preased to the hyest roumes and sayd vnto them:

Romans 12:10Be kynde one to another with brotherly love. In gevynge honoure goo one before another.

3 John 1:9I wrote vnto the congregacion: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence amonge them receaveth vs not.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:2-13

The Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men:… Read the whole commentary →

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