Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The law, etc.--(See Matthew 11:13).
and every man presseth, etc.--Publicans and sinners, all indiscriminately, are eagerly pressing into it; and ye, interested adherents of the mere forms of an economy which is passing away, "discerning not the signs of this time," will allow the tide to go past you and be found a stranded monument of blindness and obstinacy.
covetous . . . derided him--sneered at Him; their master sin being too plainly struck at for them to relish. But it was easier to run down than to refute such teaching.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 2:10-11
Matthew 5:17
John 3:3
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