Matthew 25:43 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 25:43

I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

KJV

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

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Commentary

2 voices

Origen of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (253)

It follows, I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat. It is written to the believers, Ye are the body of Christ. (1 Cor. 12:27.) As then the soul dwelling in the body, though it hungers not in respect of its spiritual substance, yet hungers for the food of the body, because it is yoked to the body; so the Saviour suffers whatever His body the Church suffers, though He Himself be impassible.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I was a stranger - If men were sure that Jesus Christ was actually somewhere in the land, in great personal distress, hungry, thirsty, naked, and confined, they would doubtless run unto and relieve him. Now Christ assures us that a man who is hungry, thirsty, naked, etc., is his representative, and that whatever we do to such a one he will consider as done to himself; yet this testimony of Christ is not regarded! Well, he will be just when he judges, and righteous when he punishes.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

In these verses our Lord Jesus Christ describes the judgment day, and some of its leading circumstances. There are few passages in the whole Bible more solemn and heart-seaching than this. May we read it with the deep and serious attention which it deserves. Let us mark in the first place who will be the judge in the last day. We read that it will be “the Son of Man” Jesus Christ himself.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ξένος	xenos	a stranger	G3581 →
ἤμην	ēmēn	I was	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
συνηγάγετέ	sunēgagete	You took in	G4863 →
με,	me	Me,	G3165 →
γυμνὸς	gumnos	naked	G1131 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
περιεβάλετέ	periebalete	you did clothe	G4016 →
με,	me	Me,	G3165 →
ἀσθενὴς	asthenēs	sick	G772 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
φυλακῇ	phulakēa	prison	G5438 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἐπεσκέψασθέ	epeskepsasthe	did you visit	G1980 →
με.¶	me	Me.	G3165 →