Matthew 23:17 - Forerunner Commentary

Matthew 23:17

15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of¹ hell as yourselves.

16 “Woe to you, ^ablind guides, who say, ^b‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’

17 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold ^aor the temple that sanctifies the gold?

18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’

19 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift ^aor the altar that sanctifies the gift?

20 Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

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Interlinear Bible for Matthew 23:17:

Ye fools
moros (#3474) and
kai (#2532) blind:
tuphlos (#5185) for
gar (#1063) whether
tis (#5101) is
esti (#2076) greater,
meizon (#3187) the
xurao (#3588) gold,
chrusos (#5557) or
e (#2228) the
xurao (#3588) temple
naos (#3485) that sanctifieth
hagiazo (#37) the
xurao (#3588) gold?
chrusos (#5557)

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