Matthew 23:13

23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law 1  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! 2  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! 3  For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

Matthew 23:28

23:28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

1 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

2 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).

3 tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”