Matthew 23:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

Cross References

Isaiah 9:16

For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

Matthew 15:14

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Matthew 19:24

And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 23:16

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

Matthew 7:4

Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?

John 18:28

So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

John 18:40

Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.

Revelation 12:16

And the earth gave help to the woman, and with open mouth took up the river which the dragon sent out of his mouth.