Mat 23:27-28 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 27. For ye are like ] παρομοιαζετε, ye exactly resemble -the parallel is complete. Whited sepulchres ] White-washed tombs . As the law considered those unclean who had touched any thing belonging to the dead, the Jews took care to have their tombs white-washed each year, that, being easily discovered , they might be consequently avoided .

‏ Matthew 23:27-28

Verse 27. For ye are like] παρομοιαζετε, ye exactly resemble-the parallel is complete.

Whited sepulchres] White-washed tombs. As the law considered those unclean who had touched any thing belonging to the dead, the Jews took care to have their tombs white-washed each year, that, being easily discovered, they might be consequently avoided.

Verse 28. Even so ye also-appear righteous unto men] But what will this appearance avail a man, when God sits in judgment upon his soul? Will the fair reputation which he had acquired among men, while his heart was the seat of unrighteousness, screen him from the stroke of that justice which impartially sends all impurity and unholiness into the pit of destruction? No. In the sin that he hath sinned, and in which he hath died, and according to that, shall he be judged and punished; and his profession of holiness only tends to sink him deeper into the lake which burns with unquenchable fire. Reader! see that thy heart be right with God.