Matthew 23:16
Alas for you, you blind guides! You say ‘if any swear by the Temple, their oath counts for nothing; but, if anyone swears by the gold of the Temple, their oath is binding them’!
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Matthew 15:5but you say ‘Whenever anyone says to his father or mother “Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is set apart for God,”
Matthew 23:17Fools that you are and blind! Which is the more important? The gold? Or the Temple which has given sacredness to the gold?
Matthew 23:24You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to swallow a camel!
Mark 7:10For while Moses said ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Let anyone who abuses their father or mother suffer death,’
Galatians 5:3I again declare to everyone who receives circumcision, that he binds himself to obey 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 →