Matthew 23:25

Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! who cleanse the outside of the cup and dish (which) within are full of rapine and injustice.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

In Context

24You blind guides, who strain out gnats and swallow camels.

26Sightless Pharishee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the dish, that their outside also may be clean.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, adultery, murder, fornication, robbery, false witness, blasphemy.

Luke 11:39But Jeshu said to him, Now you Pharishee cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but within you are full of rapine and wickedness.

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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