Matthew 23:24
Good News Translation
Blind guides! You strain a fly out of your drink, but swallow a camel!

New Revised Standard Version
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

Contemporary English Version
You blind leaders! You strain out a small fly but swallow a camel.

New American Bible
Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

Matthew 7:4 Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?

Matthew 15:2-6 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. . . .

Matthew 19:24 And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 27:6-8 But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood. . . .

Luke 6:7-10 And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath: that they might find an accusation against him. . . .

John 18:28,40 Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch. . . .

Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone. 24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. 25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.…
Cross References
Isaiah 9:16
And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.

Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor.

Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Matthew 23:23
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