Matthew 5:24 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:24

leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

KJV

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Vers. 23, 24.) Therefore, if you offer your gift at the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to your brother: and then coming, offer your gift. He did not say, if you have something against your brother, but if your brother has something against you, so that a harsher necessity of reconciliation may be imposed on you. As long as we cannot appease him, I do not know whether we should consequently offer our gifts to God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Leave there thy gift before the altar,.... This might easily be done, and the business soon dispatched, at some seasons; particularly, at their public feasts, as the passover, pentecost, and feast of tabernacles, when all the Israelites were together: and go thy way; make what haste thou canst, first be reconciled to thy brother: use all means to reconcile him; acknowledge the offence; ask his pardon; assure him that thou wishest well to him, and not ill; and then come and offer thy gift, by putting it on the altar, before which it was left.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Leave there thy gift before the altar - This is as much as to say, “Do not attempt to bring any offering to God while thou art in a spirit of enmity against any person; or hast any difference with thy neighbor, which thou hast not used thy diligence to get adjusted.” It is our duty and interest, both to bring our gift, and offer it too; but God will not accept of any act of religious worship from us, while any enmity subsists in our hearts towards any soul of man; or while any subsists in our neighbor’s heart towards us, which we have not used the proper means to remove.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἄφες	aphes	do leave	G863 →
ἐκεῖ	ekei	there	G1563 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
δῶρόν	dōron	gift	G1435 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
ἔμπροσθεν	emprosthen	before	G1715 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
θυσιαστηρίου	thusiastēriou	altar	G2379 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὕπαγε,	hupage	do go away,	G5217 →
πρῶτον	prōton	first	G4413 →
διαλλάγηθι	diallagēthi	do be reconciled	G1259 →
τῷ	tō	to the	G3588 →
ἀδελφῷ	adelphō	brother	G80 →
σου,	sou	of you,	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τότε	tote	then	G5119 →
ἐλθὼν	elthōn	having come	G2064 →
πρόσφερε	prosphere	do offer	G4374 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
δῶρόν	dōron	gift	G1435 →
σου.¶	sou	of you.	G4771 →

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
James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
leads to
- Jeremiah 29:12–13
  Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- Proverbs 15:29
  The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
- Matthew 21:22
  If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
- Psalms 34:15
  The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- John 9:31
  We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.