24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
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And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. …
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. …
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. …
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-33)In these verses we have eight woes levelled directly against the scribes and Pharisees by our Lord Jesus Christ, like so many claps of thunder, or flashes of lightning, from mount Sinai. Three woes are made to look very dreadful ( Rev. 8:13 ; 9:12 ); but here are eight woes, in opposition to the eight beatitudes, Matt. 5:3. The gospel has its woes as well as the law, and gospel curses are of all c…
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