Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the temple—is debtor!
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In Context
17Fools and blind! For which [is] greater, the gold, or the temple that is sanctifying the gold?
Cross References
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen [are] blind—all of them, || They have not known, || All of them [are] mute dogs, they are not able to bark, || Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
Matthew 15:5but you say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering [is] whatever you may be profited by me—
Matthew 23:17Fools and blind! For which [is] greater, the gold, or the temple that is sanctifying the gold?
Matthew 23:24Blind guides! Who are straining out the gnat, and are swallowing the camel.
Mark 7:10for Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother—let him die the death;
Galatians 5:3and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole 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 →