Matthew 23:10

Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

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Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

BSB

Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.

KJV

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

ASV

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, [even] the Christ.

BBE

And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.

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μηδὲ mēde Neither G3366 κληθῆτε klēthēte may be called G2564 καθηγηταί kathēgētai instructors G2519 ὅτι hoti since G3754 ὁ ho the G3588 καθηγητὴς kathēgētēs instructor G2519 ὑμῶν humōn of you G4771 ἐστιν estin is G1510 εἷς heis One G1520 ὁ ho the G3588 Χριστός Christos Christ G5547

The early church

And again He adds, "Neither be ye called guides, for one is your guide, even Christ;" and He said not, I. For like as above He said, "What think ye of Christ?" and He said not, "of me," so here too. But I should be glad to ask here, what they would say, who are repeatedly applying the term one, one, to the Father alone, to the rejection of the Only-begotten. Is the Father guide? All would declare it, and none would gainsay it. And yet "one," He saith, "is your guide, even Christ." For like as Christ, being called the one guide, casts not out the Father from being guide; even so the Father, being called Master, doth not cast out the Son from being Master. For the expression, one, one, is spoken in contra-distinction to men, and the rest of the creation.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Matthew
(non occ.) Because it was clear who was the Father of all, by this which was said, Which art in Heaven, He would teach them who was the Master of all, and therefore repeats the same command concerning a master, Neither be ye called masters; for one is your Master, even Christ.
Glossa Ordinaria · d. 1274Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–12

The scribes and Pharisees explained the law of Moses, and enforced obedience to it. They are charged with hypocrisy in religion. We can only judge according to outward appearance; but God searches the heart. They made phylacteries. These were scrolls of paper or parchment, wherein were written four paragraphs of the law, to be worn on their foreheads and left arms, Ex 13:2-10; 13:11-16; De 6:4-9; 11:13-21. They made these phylacteries broad, that they might be thought more zealous for the law than others. God appointed the Jews to make fringes upon their garments, Nu 15:38, to remind them of their being a peculiar people; but the Pharisees made them larger than common, as if they were thereby more religious than others. Pride was the darling, reigning sin of the Pharisees, the sin that most easily beset them, and which our Lord Jesus takes all occasions to speak against. For him that is taught in the word to give respect to him that teaches, is commendable; but for him that teaches, to demand it, to be puffed up with it, is sinful. How much is all this against the spirit of Christianity! The consistent disciple of Christ is pained by being put into chief places. But who that looks around on the visible church, would think this was the spirit required? It is plain that some measure of this antichristian spirit prevails in every religious society, and in every one of our hearts.

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