Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Matthew 25:43
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.
Verse 43. 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, c., 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in,…. Did not take the poor members of Christ into their houses, and take care of them in their families, when they were obliged to flee from their places of abode, or wandered about preaching the Gospel; and who must have perished in the streets, if others, that bore the Christian name; had not been more compassionate than they:
naked, and ye clothed me not: sick and in prison, and ye visited me not: their conduct, behaviour, and character, are just the reverse of the righteous, and therefore it is no wonder that their sentence is different.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
43 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.
Ver. 43. I was a stranger, &c. ] These fools of the people had a price in their hands to get heaven (as Joseph by his bounty bought the land of Egypt), but they had no heart to it, Pro 17:16 . Richard son to Henry III of England was elected king of Romans, being preferred therein before Alphonsus king of Spain, his competitor. The Spaniard pretended and complained to have been first elected. But being, it seems, a great mathematician, he was drawing lines when he should have drawn out his purse, and so came anticipating his hopes. a And is not this many an Englishman’s fault and folly?
a Daniel’s Hist. of England, 174.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Jdg 19:15 – no man Job 31:19 – General Jer 23:2 – and have Eze 22:29 – oppressed Mat 25:35 – I was a Mat 25:36 – was sick Act 15:36 – Let Heb 13:2 – not Heb 13:3 – them that