Matthew 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.

Isa 9:14,15; Isa 33:14; Zec 11:17; Mt 21:31,32; Mt 23:14,15,27,29; Lu 11:43,44; Lu 11:52; Joh 7:46-52; Joh 9:22,24,34; Ac 4:17,18; Ac 5:28,40; Ac 8:1; Ac 13:8; 1Th 2:15,16; 2Ti 3:8; 2Ti 4:15

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.”