23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law 4 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! 5 You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! 6 For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
1 tn Grk “said to him.”
2 tn Grk “Say that.”
3 tc A majority of witnesses read σου (sou, “your”) here, perhaps for clarification. At the same time, it is possible that the pronoun dropped out through haplography or was excised because of perceived redundancy (there are two other such pronouns in the verse) by א B. Either way, the translation adds it due to the requirements of English style. NA27 includes σου here.
4 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
5 tn Grk “Woe to you…because you…” The causal particle ὅτι (Joti) has not been translated here for rhetorical effect (and so throughout this chapter).
6 tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”