for those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up.
Matthew 23:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel! [Lev. 27:30; Mic. 6:8.] American Standard Version (1901) Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel! Common English Bible You blind guides! You filter out an ant but swallow a camel. Catholic Public Domain Version You blind guides, straining out a gnat, while swallowing a camel! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel. |
for those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led by them are swallowed up.
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If any one swears by the temple, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?
Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.
They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon had poured from his mouth.