Matthew 23:6 Cross References - WPNT

⁶ they love the place of honor at dinners and the first seats in the synagogues,

²¹ So He said to her, “What do you wish?” She says to Him, “State that these my two sons may sit one on Your right and one on Your left in Your kingdom”.

³⁸ Then He said to them in His teaching: “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes and to get greetings in the market places, ³⁹ and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unperceived graves, that people walk on without knowing it.” ⁴⁵ Then one of the lawyers reacted and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things you insult us also!” ⁴⁶ So He said: “Woe to you lawyers also! You load men down with burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets, it being your fathers who killed them. ⁴⁸ Thereby you witness to and approve of the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, while you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ Also, because of this ‘the wisdom of God’ said: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute’, ⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation! ⁵² Woe to you lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering!” ⁵³ Well when He had said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge Him on vehemently and to cross-examine Him about many things, ⁵⁴ lying in wait for Him, trying to catch Him in something He might say, so that they might accuse Him.

⁷ Then He told a parable to those who were invited, having observed how they kept trying for the best places, saying to them: ⁸ “Whenever you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline in the place of honor, in case someone more honorable than you has been invited by him; ⁹ then he who invited you both will come and say, ‘You, give this man place!’ and then, with shame, you start to take the lowest place. ¹⁰ Rather, whenever you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’. Then you will have honor in the presence of your fellow guests. ¹¹ Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

⁴⁶ “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; ⁴⁷ who ‘devour’ widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. These will receive more severe judgment.”

¹⁰ showing family affection to one another in brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

¹ My brothers, stop holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Glory, with partiality. ² For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothes, should enter your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy rags should also enter, ³ and you pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit in this special seat,” but to the poor one you say, “You stand there,” or “Sit here at my footstool,” ⁴ have you not been separated among yourselves and become judges with malignant thoughts?

⁹ I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who wants to dominate the others, does not acknowledge us.