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Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:1-4

Matthew 6:1-4 The Law kept by Sincerity. I. It was the custom for great personages princes and governors and such like when making high procession through some favoured province, to sound a trumpet before them, and scatter largess of gold and silver, whereby they gained the good will of the poor. Our Lord likens the almsgiving of the Pharisees to this kind of lordly display of munificence. Their alms were never distributed without their taking good care, one way or other, to let the good deed... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:2

Matthew 6:2 Here we have I. A profound truth about human nature. Man, as man, works, as our Lord calls it, for a reward. II. A tragic contrast "their reward." There is another reward than theirs another and a higher. III. A judicial sentence which the Divine speaker passes upon some of the men of His time. It is the language of fine irony; it is the language, too, of deep compassion. H. P. Liddon, Penny Pulpit, No. 968. References: Matthew 6:2-4 . J. Oswald Dykes, The Laws of the Kingdom, p.... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 6:1-4

DISCOURSE: 1311DIRECTIONS RESPECTING ALMS-DEEDSMatthew 6:1-4. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, thai they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Matthew 6:2

reward i.e. the reward they have sought. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:1-34

Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on the mountainside there above the Sea of Galilee. "Seeing the multitudes, he went into a mountain: and he was set, his disciples came unto him: and he opened his mouth and he taught them, saying," ( Matthew 5:1-2 ).So the first thing we note is that this Sermon on the Mount is not for general world... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 6:1-34

Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteousness, in another alms. Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Daniel 2:27. Righteousness is the sense, alms the gloss. The jews often described alms by the former term; and alms is allowed to be one branch of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 6:2

Matthew 6:2Their reward.Having one’s rewardI. A profound truth about human nature-man works for reward.II. There is a suggested contrast-“their reward.” In God all the noblest aspirations of men are met.III. A sentence which the Divine Speaker passes upon some of the men of the time. “They have their reward.” They have it altogether. Irony, pathos. Their reward was transient, worthless. It does not necessarily follow that all good works done publicly forfeit God’s approval hereafter. (Canon... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 6:2

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. Ver. 2. Therefore when thou doest thine alms ] Unless thou set light by thy reward, as Esau did by his birthright; unless thou holdest heaven hardly worth having, and art of that carnal cardinal’s mind (Card. Bourbon), who preferred his part in Paris before his part in Paradise. ... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 6:2

when: Job 31:16-Proverbs :, Psalms 37:21, Psalms 112:9, Proverbs 19:17, Ecclesiastes 11:2, Isaiah 58:7, Isaiah 58:10-2 Kings :, Luke 11:41, Luke 12:33, John 13:29, Acts 9:36, Acts 10:2, Acts 10:4, Acts 10:31, Acts 11:29, Acts 24:17, Romans 12:8, 2 Corinthians 9:6-Ezra :, Galatians 2:10, Ephesians 4:28, 1 Timothy 6:18, Philemon 1:7, Hebrews 13:16, James 2:15, James 2:16, 1 Peter 4:11, 1 John 3:17-Psalms : do not sound a trumpet: or, cause not a trumpet to be sounded, Proverbs 20:6, Hosea 8:1 ... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 6:2

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.As the hypocrites do — Many of the scribes and Pharisees did this, under a pretence of calling the poor together.They have their reward — All they will have; for they shall have none from God. read more