Matthew 23:24
Matthew chapter 23 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
KJV
King James Version · 1611Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
Context
v.23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
v.24This passage
v.25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 18:40
They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
- Matthew 19:24
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
- Matthew 15:2
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
- Matthew 27:6
And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.
- Matthew 7:4
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?
- Matthew 23:16
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.