Matthew 23:17
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Matthew 23:17 in other translations
| BSB | You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred? |
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| WEB | You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? |
| ASV | Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? |
| YLT | Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold? |
| DARBY | Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold? |
| BBE | You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy? |
| Webster | Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? |
What does Matthew 23:17 mean?
Barnes' Notes
(e) "ye fools and blind" Psa 94:8
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 23:13-33
The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ, and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others from him. Yet it is no new thing for the show and form of godliness to be made a cloak to the greatest enormities. But dissembled piety will be reckoned double iniquity. They were very busy to turn souls to be of their party…
Matthew 23:17 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 23:17
- Matthew 23:19
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
- Numbers 16:38-39
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
- Psalms 94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
- Exodus 30:26-29
And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ps 94:8
or.
19; Ex 30:26-29; Nu 16:38,39
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Context
- Matthew 23:16
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
- Matthew 23:17
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
- Matthew 23:18
And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
Matthew 23:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¡Insensatos y ciegos! porque ¿cuál es mayor, el oro, ó el templo que santifica al oro? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Fous et aveugles! car lequel est le plus grand, ou l’or, ou le temple qui sanctifie l’or? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Narren und Blinde! denn was ist größer, das Gold, oder der Tempel, der das Gold heiligt? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Stulti et cæci: quid enim majus est? aurum, an templum, quod sanctificat aurum? |