Adder [N] [S]( Psalms 140:3 ; Romans 3:13 , asp) is the rendering of, Akshub (coiling or lying in wait), properly an asp or viper, found only in thi...
John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting (hsan oi maqhtai Iwanou kai oi Parisaioi nhsteuonte). The periphrastic imperfect, so common in Mark's...
Overview - Matthew 3 1?John preaches: his office, life, and baptism. 7?He reprehends the Pharisees, 13?and baptizes Christ in Jordan. Treasury of Scr...
Exodus 16:1 And they took their journey from Elim And came again to the Red sea, as appears from ( Numbers 33:10 ) perhaps to some bay or creek of it,...
Jeremiah 12:9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird Or, is not mine heritage unto me as a speckled bird? F2 as a bird of various colours, deligh...
The Pharisees and Sadducees (twn Parisaiwn kai Saddoukaiwn). These two rival parties do not often unite in common action, but do again in Matthew 16...
1 Samuel 13:18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron Of which name there were two cities, the upper and nether, and both in the tribe of Eph...
Matthew 23:33 Ye servants, ye generation of vipers The latter of these names, John the Baptist calls the Sadducees and Pharisees by, in ( Matthew 3:7 ...
When Paul had gathered (sustrepsanto tou Paulou). Genitive absolute with first aorist active participle of sustrepw, old verb to twist or turn togeth...
The beast (to qhrion). Diminutive of qhr and so little beast. See on Mr 1:13. Aristotle and the medical writers apply the word to venomous serpents, ...
1 Samuel 16:16 Let our Lord now command thy servants which are before thee, &c.] Meaning either themselves, or some of a more inferior rank, who were ...
Psalms 144:7 Send thine hand from above From the high heavens, as the Targum; that is, exert and display thy power in my deliverance, and in the destr...
Sadducees [N] [B] [H] [S]The origin of this Jewish sect cannot definitely be traced. It was probably the outcome of the influence of Grecian customs a...
Pharisees [N] [B] [H] [S]separatists (Heb. persahin, from parash, to separate). They were probably the successors of the Assideans (i.e., the pious), ...
When therefore (Hw oun). Reference to Luke 3:22 . the work of the Baptist and the jealousy of his disciples. Oun is very common in John's Gospel in ...
GENERATION jen-er-a'-shun (Latin generatio, from genero, beget): (1) The translation (a) of dor, circle, generation, hence, age, period, cycle: man...
And this is the witness of John (kai auth estin h marturia tou Iwanou). He had twice already alluded to it (verses Acts 7, 15 Acts 15 ) and now he ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. They search out iniquities. Diligently they consider, invent, devise, and seek for wicked plans to wreak their malice. These are n...
Pharisees, the A sect of the Jews Acts 15:5 The strictest observers of the Mosaic ritual Acts 26:5 By descent, especially esteemed Acts 23...
Sermon LXXI. [CXXI. Ben.]Sermon LXXI. [CXXI. Ben.] On the words of the gospel, John I. 10, The world was made through him, etc.1. By the Lord was the ...