马太福音 23:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們這些瞎眼的愚昧人哪，到底是金子大，還是使金子成聖的聖所大呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 这 无 知 瞎 眼 的 人 哪 ， 甚 麽 是 大 的 ？ 是 金 子 呢 ？ 还 是 叫 金 子 成 圣 的 殿 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

¹³ "How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the door for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don't enter, and you stop others who are trying to enter. [ ¹⁴ How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees. You are hypocrites. You take away widows' houses, and you say long prayers so that people will notice you. So you will have a worse punishment.] ¹⁵ "How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You travel across land and sea to find one person who will change to your ways. When you find that person, you make him more fit for hell than you are. ¹⁶ "How terrible for you! You guide the people, but you are blind. You say, ‘If people swear by the Temple when they make a promise, that means nothing. But if they swear by the gold that is in the Temple, they must keep that promise.' ¹⁷ You are blind fools! Which is greater: the gold or the Temple that makes that gold holy? ¹⁸ And you say, ‘If people swear by the altar when they make a promise, that means nothing. But if they swear by the gift on the altar, they must keep that promise.' ¹⁹ You are blind! Which is greater: the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? ²⁰ The person who swears by the altar is really using the altar and also everything on the altar. ²¹ And the person who swears by the Temple is really using the Temple and also everything in the Temple. ²² The person who swears by heaven is also using God's throne and the One who sits on that throne.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ye fools: Psalms 94:8

or: Matthew 23:19, Exodus 30:26-29, Numbers 16:38, Numbers 16:39

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:37 - it shall be an Exodus 30:29 - whatsoever Leviticus 21:18 - a blind man Psalms 53:4 - Have Ezekiel 44:19 - sanctify Zechariah 11:15 - a foolish Matthew 12:6 - General Matthew 23:16 - ye blind Luke 11:40 - fools

Cross-References

Genesis 23:7
Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.

Genesis 23:10
Ephron was sitting among the Hittites at the city gate. He answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:14
Ephron answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:20
So Abraham bought the field and the cave in it from the Hittites to use as a burying place.

Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron east of Mamre. (Ephron was the son of Zohar the Hittite.)

Genesis 50:13
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought this cave and field from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place.

Psalms 112:5
It is good to be merciful and generous. Those who are fair in their business

Matthew 10:16
"Listen, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as clever as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Acts 7:16
Later their bodies were moved to Shechem and put in a grave there. (It was the same grave Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.)

Ephesians 5:15
So be very careful how you live. Do not live like those who are not wise, but live wisely.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye fools, and blind,.... That argue after so ridiculous a manner, that make use of such thin sophistry, that everybody may see through it; who must be stupid and sottish to the last degree, and their minds foolishly blinded with avarice; as to please and satisfy themselves: with so poor a distinction; that would by no means serve them, but make against them:

for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? The temple, to be sure: for that was the seat of the divine majesty; built for him to dwell in, and in which he took up his residence; and was dedicated to his service, and in it was divine worship performed unto him. The temple was sanctified by the presence of God in it; and the gold sanctified by the temple, being devoted to the service of it: whatever holiness it had, it had it from the temple, and therefore the temple must be greater than that; and consequently it must be most extravagantly ridiculous and foolish in them, to make oaths by the gold of the temple, and gifts dedicated to its service, and on that score sanctified by it, more binding and sacred than such as were by the temple itself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The temple that sanctifieth the gold - To sanctify is to make holy. The gold had no holiness but what it derived from the temple. If in any other place, it would be no more holy than any other gold. It was foolish, then, to suppose that that was more holy than the temple, from which it received all the sanctity which it possessed.