Matthew 23:16

Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

In Context

15Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him a child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

17Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

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Cross References

Matthew 15:5But ye say: Whosoever shall say to a father or to a mother, Be that my offering, by which ye get profit from me: then he must not honor his father or his mother.

Matthew 23:17Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Matthew 23:24Ye blind guides, who strain out gnats, and swallow down camels.

Mark 7:10For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and whoever shall revile his father or his mother, shall surely die.

Galatians 5:3And again, I testify to every one who becometh circumcised, that he is bound to fulfill 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 →

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