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Luke 20:47 KJV
Luke · chapter 20 · verse 47
Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.Luke 20:47 · King James Version
Luke 20:47 in context
45Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,
46Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
47Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- widows'chēraa widow, metaph. a city stripped of its inhabitants and riches is represented under the…G5503 →
- receivelambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- greaterperissoterosexceeding some number or measure or rank or need, over and above, more than is necessary…G4055 →
- devourkatesthiōto consume by eating, to eat up, devour, of birds, of a dragon, of a man eating up the…G2719 →
- housesoikiaa house, an inhabited edifice, a dwelling, the inmates of a house, the family, property…G3614 →
- shewprophasisa pretext , show, under colour as though they would do something, in pretence, ostensiblyG4392 →
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The scribes were students in the law, and expositors of it to the people, men in reputation for wisdom and honour, but the generality of them were enemies to Christ and his gospel. Now here we have some of them attending him, and four things we have in these verses concerning them, which we had before: - I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 39-47