²⁴ Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!

²⁴ And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

³ And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

⁴ For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

⁵ But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given `to God';

⁶ he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

⁶ And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.

⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

⁸ Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.

⁷ And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.

⁸ But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man that had his hand withered, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.

⁹ And Jesus said unto them, I ask you, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?

¹⁰ And he looked round about on them all, and said unto him, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did `so': and his hand was restored.

⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?

¹⁶ Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

²⁸ They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

⁴⁰ They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.)