Add parallel Print Page Options

24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

Read full chapter

24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Read full chapter

The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see whether he would cure on the Sabbath, so that they might find grounds to bring an accusation against him. But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come and stand in the middle.” He got up and stood there.(A) Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life or to destroy it?” 10 After looking around at all of them, he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.

Read full chapter

But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.” After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners. For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.(A)

Read full chapter

16 “Woe to you, blind guides who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.’(A)

Read full chapter

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”(A) He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said,[a] ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’(B) But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’[b] then that person need not honor the father.[c](C) So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word[d] of God.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 15.4 Other ancient authorities read commanded, saying
  2. 15.5 Or is an offering
  3. 15.5 Other ancient authorities add or the mother
  4. 15.6 Other ancient authorities read law or commandment

Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye?

Read full chapter

40 They shouted in reply, “Not this man but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a rebel.(A)

Read full chapter

Jesus before Pilate

28 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.(A)

Read full chapter