Matthew 5:47 KJV
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the publicans so?
Matthew 5:47 NKJV
“And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more [than others]? Do not even the tax collectors do so?
Matthew 5:47 MKJV
And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax-collectors do so?
Matthew 5:47 KJV 2000
And if you greet your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the tax collectors so?
Interlinear KJV
And /kai/ if /ean/ ye salute /aspazomai/ your /humon/ brethren /adelphos/ only, /monon/ what /tis/ do /poieo/ ye more /perissos/ than others? do /poieo/ not /ouchi/ even /kai/ the publicans /telones/ so /houto/?
Albert Barnes’ Commentary
Verse 47. And if ye salute your brethren, etc. The word salute here means to show the customary tokens of civility, or to treat with the common marks of friendship. See Barnes for Lu 10:4. He says that the worst men, the very publicans, would do this. Christians should do more; they should show that they had a different spirit; they should treat their enemies as well as wicked men did their friends. This should be done,
(1.) because it is right; it is the only really amiable spirit; and,
(2.) we should show that religion is not selfish, and is superior to all other principles of action.