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Matthew 23:19
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Blind people!
Ye fooles and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the Altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
"You blind men, which is more important, the offering or the altar that sanctifies the offering?
You are blind! Which is greater: the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?
"You [spiritually] blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?
"You blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?
You blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?
You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
Are you blind? Which is more important, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
Blind men! Which is more important? the sacrifice? or the altar which makes the sacrifice holy?
[Fools and] blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
You are blind! Can't you see that the altar is greater than any gift on it? It's the altar that makes the gift holy!
Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering?
O you fools and blind! for which is greater, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?
How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?
Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
You blind men!blind and foolish men">[fn] Which is more important, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?Exodus 29:37;">[xr]
You foolish and sightless ! for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation ?
Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation?
Ye fooles and blynde, for whether is greater, the gyft: or the aulter that sanctifieth the gyft?
Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Ye fools and blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
"You are blind! Why, which is greater? --the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
Blynde men, for what is more, the yifte, or the auter that halewith the yifte?
You blind men: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
[Ye] fools, and blind: for which [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
You fools and blind men! Which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift holy?
How blind you are! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
Blind! for which is greater, The gift, or the altar that halloweth the gift?
Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
Ye foles and blinde: whether is greater ye offeringe or ye aultre which sanctifieth ye offeringe?
Fools and blind! for which [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?
Ye fooles and blynde, whether is greater? the offeringe, or the altare that sanctifieth the offerynge?
ye blind fools, which is most sacred, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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or: Exodus 29:37, Exodus 30:29
Reciprocal: Exodus 37:25 - General Exodus 40:26 - General Exodus 40:29 - the altar Leviticus 21:18 - a blind man Numbers 7:1 - sanctified them Deuteronomy 26:4 - before the Isaiah 60:2 - the darkness Haggai 2:12 - General Matthew 5:23 - thou Matthew 23:16 - ye blind Matthew 23:17 - or
Cross-References
by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return."
and he gives to me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which [is] in the extremity of his field; for full money does he give it to me, in your midst, for a possession of a burying-place."
And Ephron is sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answers Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all those entering the gate of his city, saying,
and I have lain with my fathers, and you have carried me out of Egypt, and buried me in their burying-place." And he says, "I do according to your word";
and his sons carry him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre.
And Joseph causes the sons of Israel to swear, saying, "God certainly inspects you, and you have brought up my bones from this [place]."
For I have known You bring me back [to] death, || And [to] the house appointed for all living.
If a man begets one hundred, and lives many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he has not had a grave, I have said, "Better than he [is] the untimely birth."
Also of that which is high they are afraid, || And of the low places in the way, || And the almond-tree is despised, || And the grasshopper has become a burden, || And want is increased, || For man is going to his perpetual home, || And the mourners have gone around through the street.
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, || And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye fools, and blind,.... This is very justly repeated, since this is no less an instance of their folly, blindness, and stupidity. In three copies of Beza's the word "fools" is not; nor is it in the Vulgate Latin, nor in Munster's Hebrew Gospel; but the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions have it:
for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? The gift, or offering, before it was devoted to sacred use, and brought, and laid upon the altar, was common, had no ceremonial sanctity in it, and might be put to any use; but when it was brought, and laid upon the altar, it became holy; for, according to the law, whatever touched the altar, and indeed all, or any of the vessels of the sanctuary, was holy, Exodus 29:37. Christ speaks the sense of the law, and their own traditions, and in their own language, and argues from the same to the confutation of them: חמזבח מקדש, "the altar", they say u, "sanctifies" that which is fit for it; that is, that which is proper to be offered up upon it:
"as the altar sanctifies that which is fit for it, so the ascent unto it sanctifies; and as the altar, and the ascent, sanctify what is fit for them, so the vessels sanctify; the vessels for liquids sanctify the liquids, and the dry measures sanctify the dry; the vessels for liquids do not sanctify the dry, nor the dry measures sanctify the liquids; the holy vessels, which are bored, (or broken,) when they do the service they used to do, when whole, sanctify, if not, they do not sanctify; nor does anything sanctify but in the sanctuary.''
Now, since this is a clear case, that the altar sanctifies the gift, and not the gift the altar, our Lord's question is, which is the greater? A man that has the least share of common sense will easily see, that the altar must be the greater: wherefore these scribes and Pharisees must be wretchedly stupid to give out, that an oath made by the altar was not binding, when one that was made by the gift, or
Korban, was binding; seeing the gift, or offering, received its sanctity from the altar: hence, of the two, an oath made by the altar should be more sacred and obligatory than one made by the gift.
u Misn. Zebachim, c. 9. sect. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The altar that sanctifieth the gift - The altar, dedicated to God, gave all the value or holiness to the offering, and must therefore be the greatest or of the most importance. If, therefore, either bound to the fulfillment of an oath, it must be the altar.
