| Matthew 23:26 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | You blind Pharisees! First clean the inside of the cups and dishes so that the outside may also be clean.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. |
| ASV: | Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also. |
| BBE: | You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean. |
| DBY: | Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean. |
| ERV: | Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also. |
| WEY: | Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also. |
| WBS: | Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. |
| WEB: | You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also. |
| YLT: | 'Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean. |
| Matthew 23:26 Cross References |
| XREF: | Mark 7:4 and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)
Luke 11:39 But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| PNT: | 23:25,26 Ye make clean the outside, etc. The figure is plain. Its application rebukes scrupulous care of outside forms, while neglecting to have the heart pure. |
| WES: | 23:26 Ye build the tombs of the prophets - And that is all, for ye neither observe their sayings, nor imitate their actions. |
| MHC: | 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. Not for the glory of God and the good of souls, but that they might have the credit and advantage of making converts. Gain being their godliness, by a thousand devices they made religion give way to their worldly interests. They were very strict and precise in smaller matters of the law, but careless and loose in weightier matters. It is not the scrupling a little sin that Christ here reproves; if it be a sin, though but a gnat, it must be strained out; but the doing that, and then swallowing a camel, or, committing a greater sin. While they would seem to be godly, they were neither sober nor righteous. We are really, what we are inwardly. Outward motives may keep the outside clean, while the inside is filthy; but if the heart and spirit be made new, there will be newness of life; here we must begin with ourselves. The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was like the ornaments of a grave, or dressing up a dead body, only for show. The deceitfulness of sinners' hearts appears in that they go down the streams of the sins of their own day, while they fancy that they should have opposed the sins of former days. We sometimes think, if we had lived when Christ was upon earth, that we should not have despised and rejected him, as men then did; yet Christ in his Spirit, in his word, in his ministers, is still no better treated. And it is just with God to give those up to their hearts' lusts, who obstinately persist in gratifying them. Christ gives men their true characters. |
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