Text -- Matthew 23:15 (NET)

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mat 23:15

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.