Matthew 23:26

Blind Parush, first cleanse the inside of the kos, that perhaps also the outside may become clean.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

In Context

25Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, you cleanse the outside of the kos (cup) and the dish, but inside they are full of chamdanut (greed) and taavanut (lust).

27Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you are like kevarim (graves) having been whitewashed, which on the outside indeed appear ois vaist (ostensibly) shein (beautiful), but on the inside are full of the unclean bones of the mesim (dead ones) and every trayfnyak.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:14O Yerushalayim, wash thine lev from rah, 1 that thou mayest be saved. 1 Ad mosai (how long, how much longer) 1 shall thy sinful machsh'vot lodge within thee? 1

Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your peysha'im, whereby ye have committed peysha; and get you a lev chadash and a ruach chadashah; + 18:31 i.e., regeneration, new birth see Yn 3:3 for why will ye die, O Bais Yisroel?

Luke 6:45The ish tov from the good storehouse of the lev produces tov, and the ish rah out of the evil storehouse produces rah. For from the abundance of the lev the peh (mouth) speaks.

Hebrews 10:22Let us approach and draw near to Hashem with a lev shalem, with full assurance and bitachon of Emunah, our levavot having been sprinkled clean (tehorim) + 10:22 YAZZEH, “MOSHIACH WILL SPRINKLE,” Isa 52:15 from an evil matzpun (conscience) and our bodies plunged kluhr (pure) into a tevilah in a mikveh mayim. + 10:22 Ezek 36:25-26

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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