Matthew 23:16
What a disaster is coming on those of you who say, ‘If you swear by the Temple that doesn't count, but if you swear by the gold of the Temple, then you have to keep your oath.’ What blind guides you are!
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17What is greater—the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold holy?
Cross References
Isaiah 56:10For all the watchmen are blind. None of them know what's going on. They're all silent—they can't bark. They spend their time lying down, dreaming, loving to sleep.
Matthew 15:5But you say that if someone tells their father or mother, ‘Whatever you might have expected to get from me is now a gift to God,’ then
Matthew 23:17What is greater—the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold holy?
Matthew 23:24You blind guides—you strain what you drink to keep out a fly but then you swallow a camel!
Mark 7:10“Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Whoever curses their father or mother should die.’
Galatians 5:3Let me repeat: every man who is circumcised has to keep the whole of the law.
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 →