Matthew 5:22 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:22

But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.

BSB

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ASV

but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

KJV

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 22) Because whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment. In some manuscripts it is added, without cause: but in the true definitive sentence, anger is completely eliminated, as the Scripture says: Whoever is angry with his brother. For if we are commanded to offer the other cheek to the one who strikes us, and to love our enemies, and to pray for those who persecute us (Luke 6), all occasion for anger is removed. Therefore, without cause must be removed, because the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God (James 1).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

But I say unto you,.... This is a Rabbinical way of speaking, used when a question is determined, and a false notion is refuted; it is a magisterial form of expression, and well suits with Christ, the great teacher and master in Israel; who spake as one having authority, opposing himself, not to the law of "Moses, thou shalt not kill"; but to the false gloss the ancient doctors had put upon it, with which their later ones agreed.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

So that this righteousness does not exceed theirs. But Christ teaches, that we ought not, for any cause, to be so angry as to call any man Raca, or fool. We ought not, for any cause, to be angry at the person of the sinner, but at his sins only.

Anchor repaired 2026-08-10: was 5:34; content is Wesley on 5:22 (Raca/anger), confirmed against source note position in Explanatory Notes ch. 5.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But Romish expositors greatly err in taking the first two--"the judgment" and "the council"--to refer to degrees of temporal punishment with which lesser sins were to be visited under the Gospel, and only the last--"hell-fire"--to refer to the future life.

Modern Voices1 voice

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1906–1945

The Cost of Discipleship (1937)

We are passing judgment on him and that is murder.

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Original language & word study

39 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
λέγω	legō	say	G3004 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
πᾶς	pas	everyone	G3956 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
ὀργιζόμενος	orgizomenos	is being angry with	G3710 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
ἀδελφῷ	adelphō	brother	G80 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
ἔνοχος	enochos	liable	G1777 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
τῇ	tēa	to the	G3588 →
κρίσει·	krisei	judgment;	G2920 →
ὃς	hos	who[ever]	G3739 →
δ᾽	d᾽	now	G1161 →
ἂν	an	maybe	G302 →
εἴπῃ	eipē	may say	G2036 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
ἀδελφῷ	adelphō	brother	G80 →
αὐτοῦ·	autou	of him;	G846 →
ῥακά,	rhaka	Raca,’	G4469 →
ἔνοχος	enochos	liable	G1777 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
συνεδρίῳ·	sunedriō	Sanhedrin;	G4892 →
ὃς	hos	who[ever]	G3739 →
δ᾽	d᾽	now	G1161 →
ἂν	an	maybe	G302 →
εἴπῃ·	eipē	may say;	G2036 →
μωρέ,	mōre	Fool,	G3474 →
ἔνοχος	enochos	liable	G1777 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
γέενναν	geennan	hell	G1067 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
πυρός.¶	puros	of fire.	G4442 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 John 2:9
If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
leads to
- 1 John 4:20
  If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
- 1 John 2:11
  But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- 1 John 3:13–17
  So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
- Psalms 82:5
  They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1–3
  If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.