Discovery BoxMatthew 23:15 
Context23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law 1 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, 2 and when you get one, 3 you make him twice as much a child of hell 4 as yourselves!
Matthew 23:33
Context23:33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 5
1 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
2 tn Or “one proselyte.”
3 tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”
4 tn Grk “a son of Gehenna.” Expressions constructed with υἱός (Juios) followed by a genitive of class or kind denote a person belonging to the class or kind specified by the following genitive (L&N 9.4). Thus the phrase here means “a person who belongs to hell.”
sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.
5 tn Grk “the judgment of Gehenna.”
sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.
