Verse 24

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

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  • Matt 19:24 : 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Matt 27:6-8 : 6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 Therefore that field is called the Field of Blood to this day.
  • Luke 6:7-9 : 7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. 8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he rose and stood forth. 9 Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it? 10 And looking around upon them all, he said to the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment, and it was early. But they themselves did not go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
  • John 18:40 : 40 Then they all cried again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
  • Matt 7:4 : 4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and behold, a plank is in your own eye?
  • Matt 23:16 : 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, he is obligated!