Matthew 23:24-26

Expanded Bible

²⁴ ·You guide the people, but you are blind! [^LBlind guides!] You ·are like a person who picks a fly out of a drink and then swallows a camel [^Lstrain out a gnat, but swallow a camel; ^Cworrying about the smallest mistakes while committing the biggest sins]!

²⁵ “·How terrible for [^LWoe to] you, ·teachers of the law [scribes] and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You ·wash [clean] the outside of your cups and dishes [^Cfor ceremonial purity], but inside they are full of ·things you got by cheating others and by pleasing only yourselves [^Lgreed/robbery and self-indulgence]. ²⁶ Pharisees, you are blind! First make the inside of the cup^[a] clean, and then the outside ·can be truly [or will also be] clean.