Discovery BoxMatthew 23:13 
Context23:13 “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 23:16
Context23:16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. 4 But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’
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.”
4 tn Grk “Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing.”
