Matthew 23:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:22

If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

Numbers 30:2

When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

Matthew 23:16

You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

Matthew 23:17

And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.

Matthew 23:19

He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.

Mark 7:11

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

Galatians 5:3

Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.