Matthew 23:24

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

In Context

23Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone.

25Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:2Why do thy disciples trangress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:16Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor.

Luke 6:7And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find an accusation against him.

John 18:40Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:14-34

The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make… Read the whole commentary →

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