Matthew 23:14
Not included in this translation: this verse is absent from the earliest manuscripts.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Note Some Greek texts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, numbering verse 14 as 13. NU omits verse 14.
Not included in this translation: this verse is absent from the earliest manuscripts.
Note Some authorities insert here, or after v. 12, v. 14 Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows’ houses, even while for a pretence ye make long prayes: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation. See Mrk 12:40; Luk 20:47.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- for ye
- Josephus says that this sect pretended to a more exact knowledge of the law, on which account the women were subject to them, as pretending to be dear to God.
- Exodus 22:22–24; Job 22:9; Job 31:16–20; Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47; 2 Timothy 3:6; Titus 1:10, 11; 2 Peter 2:14, 15
- therefore
- Matthew 23:33–36; Matthew 11:24; Luke 12:48; James 3:1; 2 Peter 2:3