Matius 23:24

23:24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel! ¹ 

Matius 23:27

23:27 “Woe to you, experts in the law ²  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. ³ 

Matius 23:33

23:33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? ⁴ 

[23:24]  ¹ tn Grk “Blind guides who strain out a gnat yet who swallow a camel!”

[23:27]  ² tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:27]  ³ sn This was an idiom for hypocrisy – just as the wall was painted on the outside but something different on the inside, so this person was not what he appeared or pretended to be (for discussion of a similar metaphor, see L&N 88.234; BDAG 1010 s.v. τοῖχος). See Deut 28:22; Ezek 13:10-16; Acts 23:3.

[23:33]  ⁴ tn Grk “the judgment of Gehenna.”

[23:33]  sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.