Matthew 23:19
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
KJV
τυφλοί, τί γὰρ μεῖζον, τὸ δῶρον ἢ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τὸ ἁγιάζον τὸ δῶρον;
Greek NT
Cæci : quid enim majus est, donum, an altare, quod sanctificat donum ?
Vulgate
Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
ASV
Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δῶρον
doron
noun · 19×
θυσιαστήριον
thusiasterion
noun · 23×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τυφλός
tuphlos
adjective · 50×
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.
minor
SBLGNT: τυφλοί | WH/Treg/NIV: τυφλοί | RP: Μωροὶ καὶ τυφλοί
- τυφλοί — SBLGNT
- τυφλοί — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Μωροὶ καὶ τυφλοί — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
4 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…
19. And first let us see the answers, which they returned to Alexander of blessed memory, in the outset, while their heresy was in course of formation. They wrote thus: 'He is a creature, but not as one of the creatures; a work, but not as one of the works; an offspring, but not as one of the offsprings.' Let every one consider the profligacy and craft of this heresy; for knowi…
Cross-references
- Exod 29:37 — Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
- Exod 29:37 — Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
- Exod 30:29 — And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
- Exod 30:29 — And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
- Exod 37:25 — And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
- Hag 2:12 — If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
- Isa 60:2 — For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
- Matt 5:23 — Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
- 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 23:17 — Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
- Num 7:1 — And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had