Verse 24
Matthew 23:24
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
24
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Original Language Text
greek
ὁδηγοὶ τυφλοί, ⸀οἱ διϋλίζοντες τὸν κώνωπα τὴν δὲ κάμηλον καταπίνοντες.
English Translation
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
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Chapter 23 Context
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Then Yashua (Jesus) spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
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Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
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All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works...
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For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of...
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And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlar...
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And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
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And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
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But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
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And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
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Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.
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He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
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And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalte...
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But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to mak...
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Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that s...
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Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
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And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is...
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Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
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He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:
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And whosoever shall swear by temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it:
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And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God (Elohim), and by him that sitteth ther...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and hav...
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Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of t...
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Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may be...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwa...
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So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity...
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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn t...
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And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in th...
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Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophe...
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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?
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Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to...
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That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel...
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Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how...
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Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.
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For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the nam...
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