Matthew 23:19

New American Bible - revised edition

You blind ones, which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Cross References

Exodus 29:37

Seven days you shall spend in purging the altar and in consecrating it. Then the altar will be most sacred, and whatever touches it will become sacred.

Exodus 30:29

When you have consecrated them, they shall be most sacred; whatever touches them shall be sacred.

Haggai 2:12

If someone carries sanctified meat in the fold of a garment and the fold touches bread, soup, wine, oil, or any other food, do they become sanctified? “No,” the priests answered.

Matthew 23:17

Blind fools, which is greater, the gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred?

Matthew 23:18

And you say, ‘If one swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is obligated.’

Matthew 23:20

One who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is upon it;