Matthew 23:17
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
KJV
μωροὶ καὶ τυφλοί, τίς γὰρ μείζων ἐστίν, ὁ χρυσὸς ἢ ὁ ναὸς ὁ ἁγιάσας τὸν χρυσόν;
Greek NT
Stulti et cæci : quid enim majus est ? aurum, an templum, quod sanctificat aurum ?
Vulgate
Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
ASV
Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
μωρός
moros
adjective · 12×
ναός
naos
noun · 45×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τυφλός
tuphlos
adjective · 50×
χρυσός
chrusos
noun · 12×
ἁγιάζω
agiazo
verb · 28×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἁγιάσας | WH/Treg/NIV: ἁγιάσας | RP: ἁγιάζων
- ἁγιάσας — SBLGNT
- ἁγιάσας — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἁγιάζων — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2111Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior…
Cross-references
- Exod 30:29 — And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
- Ezek 44:19 — And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put o
- Luke 11:40 — Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
- Matt 23:16 — Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
- Matt 23:19 — Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
- Num 16:38 — The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be