Matthew 5:27 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:27

You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

KJV

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

Between πάθος and προπάθεια, that is between actual passion and the first spontaneous movement of the mind, there is this difference: passion is at once a sin; the spontaneous movement of the mind, though it partakes of the evil of sin, is yet not held for an offence committedh. When then one looks upon a woman, and his mind is therewith smitten, there is propassion; if he yields to this he passes from propassion to passion, and then it is no longer the will but the opportunity to sin that is wanting.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery - See the notes at Mat 5:21. Our Saviour in these verses explains the seventh commandment. It is probable that the Pharisees had explained this commandment, as they had the sixth, as extending only to the external act; and that they regarded evil thoughts and a wanton imagination as of little consequence, or as not forbidden by the law.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Ye have heard that it was said--The words "by," or "to them of old time," in this verse are insufficiently supported, and probably were not in the original text.

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Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἠκούσατε	Ēkousate	You have heard	G191 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἐρρέθη	errethē	it was said	G2046 →
οὐ	ou	Not	G3756 →
μοιχεύσεις.	moicheuseis	will you commit adultery.’	G3431 →

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 walk8

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
Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 5:18
  You shall not commit adultery.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 7:2–3
  For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
- Romans 13:9
  The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Leviticus 20:10
  If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Deuteronomy 5:18
You shall not commit adultery.
leads to
- Exodus 20:14
  You shall not commit adultery.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
leads to
- John 8:4–5
  and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
Through
Proverbs 6:32
He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
leads to
- Proverbs 7:7
  I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,