Matthew 23:6
“And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
And love the uppermost rooms at feasts,.... Or the first and chief places to sit, or lie down on, at ordinary meals, and…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
The uppermost rooms at feasts - The word “rooms,” here, by no means expresses the meaning of the original. It would be…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
the uppermost rooms i. e. "the most honourable seats." The Jews, like the Romans, reclined at meals on couches, called…
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