Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a 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! You remove the smallest insect from your food. But you swallow a whole camel!

You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing 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!

[ 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!

I’ll say it again— it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”

The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely. If he healed the man’s hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath.But Jesus knew their thoughts. He said to the man with the deformed hand,“ Come and stand in front of everyone.” So the man came forward.Then Jesus said to his critics,“ I have a question for you. Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or to destroy it?”He looked around at them one by one and then said to the man,“ Hold out your hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!

The leading priests picked up the coins.“ It wouldn’t be right to put this money in the Temple treasury,” they said,“ since it was payment for murder.”After some discussion they finally decided to buy the potter’s field, and they made it into a cemetery for foreigners.That is why the field is still called the Field of Blood.

“ Why do your disciples disobey our age old tradition? For they ignore our tradition of ceremonial hand washing before they eat.”Jesus replied,“ And why do you, by your traditions, violate the direct commandments of God?For instance, God says,‘ Honor your father and mother,’ and‘ Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.’But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents,‘ Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.’In this way, you say they don’t need to honor their parents. And so you cancel the word of God for the sake of your own tradition.

How can you think of saying to your friend,‘ Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye?

But they shouted back,“ No! Not this man. We want Barabbas!”( Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

“ Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear‘ by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear‘ by the gold in the Temple.’

Jesus’ trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor. His accusers didn’t go inside because it would defile them, and they wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate the Passover.