Matthew 23:15
Context| NETBible | “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! |
| XREF | Es 8:17; Joh 8:44; Ac 2:10; Ac 13:10; Ac 13:43; Ac 14:2,19; Ac 17:5,6,13; Ga 4:17; Ga 6:12; Eph 2:3 |
| NET © Notes |
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. |
