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Matthew Chapter 23 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 23:17

Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
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BBE Matthew 23:17

You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
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DARBY Matthew 23:17

Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
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KJV Matthew 23:17

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
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WBT Matthew 23:17


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WEB Matthew 23:17

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
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YLT Matthew 23:17

Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Ye fools. Jesus adds to "blind" the epithet "fools," which implies not only the irrationality and absurdity of their practice, but also its moral delinquency, the fool in sapiential language being the sinner. The temple that sanctifieth the gold. Our Lord shows the absurdity of this sophistical distinction. It was because the temple was the place of God's presence that what was therein was consecrated. The gold was nothing without the temple; the temple, the originally holy, is superior to the gold, the derivatively holy, and an oath that calls the temple to witness is surely obligatory.

Ellicott's Commentary