Matthew 23:19

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

You blind people! Which is more important, the gift or the Altar that makes the gift sacred?

Cross References

Matthew 23:17

You foolish, blind people! Which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes its gold sacred?

Matthew 23:18

And [you say], whoever takes an oath ‘by the Altar,’ it does not [really] mean anything, but whoever takes an oath ‘by the gift on the Altar,’ he is obligated to [fulfill] the oath.

Matthew 23:20

The person, therefore, who takes an oath ‘by the Altar,’ [not only] swears by it, but [also] by everything on it.