Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a 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
An Understandable Version
You blind leaders, who strain out a [tiny] gnat [i.e., from your drinking water] and [yet] swallow a [whole] camel.
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.
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 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important [matters] of the law--justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these [things] {while not neglecting those}. 24 Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel! 25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!
Names
Cross References
Matthew 19:24
And again I say to you, it is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich person into the kingdom of God."
Matthew 7:4
Or how will you say to your brother, 'Allow [me] to remove the speck from your eye,' and behold, the beam of wood [is] in your [own] eye?
Matthew 15:2-6
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat {a meal}."
Matthew 23:16
"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound [by his oath].'
Matthew 27:6-8
But the chief priests took the silver coins [and] said, "It is not permitted to put them into the temple treasury, because it is {blood money}."
Luke 6:7-10
So the scribes and the Pharisees were watching closely [to see] if he would heal on the Sabbath, in order that they could find [a reason] to accuse him.
John 18:28
Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's residence. Now it was early, and they did not enter into the governor's residence so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.
John 18:40
Then they shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)