You blind guides! You remove the smallest insect from your food. But you swallow a whole camel!

你们这瞎眼领路的，蠓虫你们就滤出来，骆驼你们倒吞下去。

你们这瞎眼的向导，蠓虫你们就滤出来，骆驼你们倒吞下去。

你们这瞎眼的向导，蠓虫你们就滤出来，骆驼你们倒吞下去。

瞎眼的向导啊！你们滤出蚊虫，却吞下骆驼。

你们这些瞎眼的向导啊，你们把蚊虫滤出来，却把骆驼吞下去。

你们这些瞎眼的领路人哪，你们滤掉蠓虫，却吞下骆驼！

你們這瞎眼領路的，蠓蟲你們就濾出來，駱駝你們倒吞下去。

你們這瞎眼的嚮導，蠓蟲你們就濾出來，駱駝你們倒吞下去。

你們這瞎眼的嚮導，蠓蟲你們就濾出來，駱駝你們倒吞下去。

瞎眼的嚮導啊！你們濾出蚊蟲，卻吞下駱駝。

你們這些瞎眼的嚮導啊，你們把蚊蟲濾出來，卻把駱駝吞下去。

瞎眼的領路人哪，把蠓子濾出來，把駱駝吞下去的人哪！

你們這些瞎眼的領路人哪，你們濾掉蠓蟲，卻吞下駱駝！

瞽而導者乎、蚋則濾之、駝則吞之、○

爾瞽而相者、蚋則濾之、駝則吞之、

瞽而導人者、蚋則濾之、駝則吞之、○

爾瞽而作導者！蚋則濾之、駝則吞焉。

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel!

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, yet gulp down a camel!

[ Ye] blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Again I tell you, it is hard for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. But it is even harder for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were trying to find fault with Jesus. So they watched him closely. They wanted to see if he would heal on the Sabbath day.But Jesus knew what they were thinking. He spoke to the man who had the weak and twisted hand.“ Get up and stand in front of everyone,” he said. So the man got up and stood there.Then Jesus said to them,“ What does the Law say we should do on the Sabbath day? Should we do good? Or should we do evil? Should we save life? Or should we destroy it?”He looked around at all of them. Then he said to the man,“ Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand had been made as good as new.

The chief priests picked up the coins. They said,“ It’s against the law to put this money into the temple fund. It is blood money. It has paid for a man’s death.”So they decided to use the money to buy a potter’s field. People from other countries would be buried there.That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

“ Why don’t your disciples obey what the elders teach? Your disciples don’t wash their hands before they eat!”Jesus replied,“ And why don’t you obey God’s command? You would rather follow your own teachings!God said,‘ Honor your father and mother.’( Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16) He also said,‘ Anyone who asks for bad things to happen to their father or mother must be put to death.’( Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9)But suppose people have something that might be used to help their parents. You allow them to say it is instead‘ a gift set apart for God.’So they do not need to honor their father or mother with their gift. You make the word of God useless in order to follow your own teachings.

How can you say to your friend,‘ Let me take the bit of sawdust out of your eye’? How can you say this while there is a piece of wood in your own eye?

They shouted back,“ No! Not him! Give us Barabbas!” Barabbas had taken part in an armed struggle against the country’s rulers.

“ How terrible for you, blind guides! You say,‘ If anyone makes a promise in the name of the temple, it means nothing. But anyone who makes a promise in the name of the gold of the temple must keep that promise.’

Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning. The Jewish leaders did not want to be made“ unclean.” They wanted to be able to eat the Passover meal. So they did not enter the palace.