Matthew 23:24

Blind guides! Who are straining out the gnat, and are swallowing the camel.

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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 give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and neglected the weightier things of the Law—judgment, and kindness, and faith; these it was necessary to do, and those not to neglect.

25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:2“Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.”

Matthew 23:16Woe 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!

Luke 6:7and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him, if on the Sabbath He will heal, that they might find an accusation against Him.

John 18:40Therefore they all cried out again, saying, “Not this One—but Barabbas”; and 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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