Matthew 23:16
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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
17Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
Cross References
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Matthew 15:5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given to God;
Matthew 23:17Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
Matthew 23:24Ye blind guides, which strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.
Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
Galatians 5:3Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do 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 →