Matthew 23:24

The Passion Translation

What blind guides! Nitpickers! You will spoon out a gnat from your drink, yet at the same time you’ve gulped down a camel without realizing it!

Cross References

Isaiah 9:16

The leaders have led them astray, and the citizens are left in confusion.

Matthew 15:14

Stay away from them, for they’re nothing more than blind guides. Do you know what happens when a blind man pretends to guide another blind man? They both stumble into a ditch!”

Matthew 19:24

In fact, it’s easier to stuff a heavy rope through the eye of a needle than it is for the wealthy to enter into God’s kingdom realm!”

Matthew 23:16

“You blind guides! Great sorrow awaits you, for you teach that there’s nothing binding when you swear by God’s temple, but if you swear by the gold of the temple, you are bound by your oath.

Matthew 7:4

How could you say to your friend, ‘Let me show you where you’re wrong,’ when you’re guilty of even more?

John 18:28

Before dawn they took Jesus from his trial before Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s palace. Now the Jews refused to go into the Roman governor’s residence to avoid ceremonial defilement before eating the Passover meal.

John 18:40

They shouted out over and over, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a robber and a troublemaker.)

Revelation 12:16

But the earth came to the rescue of the woman and at once opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.