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Chapter of the New Testament
Matthew 7
is the seventh chapter of the
Gospel of Matthew
in the
New Testament
. This chapter is the last of the three chapters which comprise the
Sermon on the Mount
.
Text
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The original text was written in
Koine Greek
.
This chapter is divided into
29 verses.
Textual witnesses
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Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
[a]
Verses
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Codex Sinaiticus
(AD 330?360), Matthew 7:27?8:28
Analysis
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In
John Wesley
's analysis of the Sermon on the Mount,
chapter five
outlines "the sum of all true religion", allowing
chapter six
to detail "rules for that right intention which we are to preserve in all our outward actions, unmixed with worldly desires or anxious cares for even the
necessaries of life
" and this chapter to provide "cautions against the main hinderances of religion".
[1]
Within the chapter there are several themes, with verses 1?12 dealing with judging and discernment.
[2]
Verses 3-5 relate a
proverbial saying
on
the Mote and the Beam
, which has a parallel in
Luke 6:37-42
.
[3]
At
Matthew 7:7
Jesus returns to the subject of
prayer
, promising that God will respond to prayer. Verses
7:13
and
14
contain the analogy of the broad and narrow roads, a warning of the ease of slipping into
damnation
. Verse
7:15
continues the warnings about judgment and adds a caution about
false prophets
[4]
[5]
[6]
by repeating some of the language used by
John the Baptist
in
chapter 3
.
The chapter ends with the
parable of the wise and the foolish builders
in
Matthew 7:24
?
27
, which has a parallel in
Luke 6:46?49
.
According to theologian
Edward Plumptre
, in comparison with the preceding chapters, "this [chapter] deals chiefly with the
temptations
incident to the more advanced stages of [Christian] life when lower forms of evil have been overcome ? with the temper that judges others, the
self-deceit
of unconscious
hypocrisy
, the danger of unreality".
[7]
Explanatory notes
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Citations
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- ^
Wesley, J.,
Sermon 21, Upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount: Discourse One
, accessed 10 August 2019
- ^
Talbert, Charles H.
Matthew
.
ISBN
0-8010-3192-3
. pp. 91?95.
- ^
Steven L. Cox, Kendell H. Easley (2007).
Harmony of the Gospels
.
ISBN
0-8054-9444-8
. p. 72.
- ^
Aune, David E.
(1983).
"The Prophecies of Jesus: Unmasking False Prophets"
.
Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World
.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
:
Wm. B. Eerdmans
. pp. 222?229.
ISBN
978-0-8028-0635-2
.
OCLC
9555379
.
- ^
Chae, Young S. (2006).
"Matthew 7:15: False Prophets in Sheep's Clothing"
.
Jesus as the Eschatological Davidic Shepherd: Studies in the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and in the Gospel of Matthew
. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe. Vol. 216.
Tubingen
:
Mohr Siebeck
. pp. 234?236.
ISBN
978-3-16-148876-4
.
ISSN
0340-9570
.
- ^
France, Richard T.
(2007).
"Scene 2: False Prophets"
.
The Gospel of Matthew
.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
and
Cambridge, U.K.
:
Wm. B. Eerdmans
. pp. 289?291.
ISBN
978-0-8028-2501-8
.
LCCN
2007013488
.
- ^
Plumptre, E. H. (1905),
Matthew 7
, in
Ellicott
's Commentary for English Readers
, accessed 17 December 2016
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