Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
Matthew 23:24
In 9 translations
- BSB
- You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.See Leviticus 11:4 and Leviticus 11:23, where camels and gnats are both forbidden as food.
- KJV
- Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
- WEB
- You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
- ASV
- Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
- LSV
- Blind guides! Who are straining out the gnat, and are swallowing the camel.
- YLT
- 'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.
- DBY
- Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
- DRC
- Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
- GNV
- Ye blinde guides, which straine out a gnat, and swallowe a camell.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include οἱ (“you who [are]”); Westcott–Hort do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: οἱ. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read οἱ; Westcott and Hort (1881) omit this wording.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ὁδηγοὶ τυφλοί, οἱ διϋλίζοντες τὸν κώνωπα τὴν δὲ κάμηλον καταπίνοντες.
- RP2018
- Ὁδηγοὶ τυφλοί, οἱ διϋλίζοντες τὸν κώνωπα, τὴν δὲ κάμηλον καταπίνοντες.
- TR-Boyd
- Ὁδηγοὶ τυφλοί, οἱ διϋλίζοντες τὸν κώνωπα, τὴν δὲ κάμηλον καταπίνοντες.
- SCR1894
- οδηγοι τυφλοι οι διυλιζοντες τον κωνωπα την δε καμηλον καταπινοντες
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Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 19:24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Matthew 27:6–8The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.” After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial…
- Matthew 15:2–6“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.” Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your…
- Luke 6:7–10Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath. But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and…
- John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
- Matthew 23:16Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
- Matthew 7:4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
- John 18:40“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)
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