Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
You blind leaders, who strain out a [tiny] gnat [i.e., from your drinking water] and [yet] swallow a [whole] camel.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
You blind guides! You filter out a gnat, yet swallow a camel!
A Conservative Version
Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.
American Standard Version
Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
Amplified
Anderson New Testament
Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel.
Bible in Basic English
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
Common New Testament
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Daniel Mace New Testament
ye blind guides, who strain your liquor for a gnat, and swallow a beetle.
Darby Translation
Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
Godbey New Testament
Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow down the camel.
Goodspeed New Testament
You blind guides! straining out the gnat, and yet swallowing the camel!
John Wesley New Testament
Ye blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Julia Smith Translation
Blind guides, straining a gnat, and swallowing down a camel.
King James 2000
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Modern King James verseion
Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Moffatt New Testament
Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!
Montgomery New Testament
"You blind guides! who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!
NET Bible
Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!
New Heart English Bible
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Noyes New Testament
Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Sawyer New Testament
Blind guides! who strain out a gnat and swallow down a camel.
The Emphasized Bible
Blind guides! Straining out the gnat, but, the camel, swallowing.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Ye blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to swallow a camel!
Webster
Ye blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Weymouth New Testament
You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp down the camel!
Williams New Testament
You blind leaders, who are straining out the gnat but gulping down the camel!
World English Bible
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
Worrell New Testament
Blind guides! straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel!
Worsley New Testament
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
Youngs Literal Translation
'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.
Themes
spiritual Blindness » Exemplified » Scribes and pharisees
Camels » Referred to in illustrations by Christ
Ecclesiasticism » Jewish, rebuked by jesus
Hypocrites » Described as » Exact in minor, but neglecting important duties
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Gnat
Pharisees » Hypocrisy of, reproved » By jesus
Pharisees » Christ » Called fools and blind guides
Pharisees » Christ » Denounced woes against
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 23:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy
23 "It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you give a tenth of your mint, dill and cumin [i.e., small garden herbs used for seasoning or fragrance], and [yet] neglect the heavier responsibilities required by the law, [such as] justice, mercy and faith. You should have done these ["lighter"] things and not neglected to do the other ["heavier"] things [as well]. 24 You blind leaders, who strain out a [tiny] gnat [i.e., from your drinking water] and [yet] swallow a [whole] camel. 25 "It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you [carefully] wash the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they [i.e., such evil people] are full of greed and uncontrolled desire.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 19:24
And again I tell you, it is [actually] easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."
Matthew 7:4
Or, how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take that speck of sawdust out of your eye,' while there is a board in your own eye?
Matthew 15:2-6
"Why do your disciples violate the tradition of the [Jewish] elders? For they do not [ceremonially] wash their hands before eating [their meals]."
Matthew 23:16
"It is too bad for you blind leaders who say that whoever takes an oath 'by the Temple,' it does not [really] mean anything, but whoever takes an oath 'by the gold of the Temple,' he is obligated to [fulfill] the oath.
Matthew 27:6-8
The leading priests took the silver coins and said, "It is not permissible by the law of Moses to put this money in the Temple treasury, since it is the price [paid] for [taking] a life.
Luke 6:7-10
And the experts in the law of Moses were watching Him to see if He would heal [someone] on the Sabbath day, so they could figure out how to accuse Him.
John 18:28
Then, early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas to [governor Pilate's] headquarters. But the Jewish authorities would not enter it, because [if they had] they would have become ceremonially unclean, and could not eat the Passover meal. [Note: This was because they regarded a Gentile house as defiling].
John 18:40
They shouted out again, "[No], not this man. [We want] Barabbas!" [Note: Ironically, Barabbas' name means "son of the father"]. Now Barabbas was a robber.