Luke 13:15

13:15 Then the Lord answered him, ¹  “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, ²  and lead it to water? ³ 

Matthew 23:13-15

23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law ⁴  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! ⁵  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! ⁶  For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

23:14 [[EMPTY]] ⁷ 

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ⁸  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ⁹  and when you get one, ¹⁰  you make him twice as much a child of hell ¹¹  as yourselves!

Acts 8:21

8:21 You have no share or part ¹²  in this matter ¹³  because your heart is not right before God!

Acts 13:10

13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, ¹⁴  you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Grk “answered him and said.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been shortened to “answered him.”

² tn Grk “from the manger [feeding trough],” but by metonymy of part for whole this can be rendered “stall.”

³ sn The charge here is hypocrisy, but it is only part one of the response. Various ancient laws detail what was allowed with cattle; see Mishnah, m. Shabbat 5; CD 11:5-6.

⁴ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

⁵ 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).

⁶ tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”

⁷ tc The most important mss (א B D L Z Θ Ë¹ 33 892* pc and several versional witnesses) do not have 23:14 “Woe to you experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ property, and as a show you pray long prayers! Therefore you will receive a more severe punishment.” Part or all of the verse is contained (either after v. 12 or after v. 13) in W 0102 0107 ˹³ Ï and several versions, but it is almost certainly not original. The present translation follows NA²⁷ in omitting the verse number as well, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations. Note also that Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47 are very similar in wording and are not disputed textually.

⁸ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

⁹ tn Or “one proselyte.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

¹¹ 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.”

¹² tn The translation “share or part” is given by L&N 63.13.

¹³ tn Since the semantic range for λόγος (logos) is so broad, a number of different translations could be given for the prepositional phrase here. Something along the lines of “in this thing” would work well, but is too colloquial for the present translation.

¹⁴ tn Or “unscrupulousness.”

¹⁵ sn “You who…paths of the Lord?” This rebuke is like ones from the OT prophets: Jer 5:27; Gen 32:11; Prov 10:7; Hos 14:9. Five separate remarks indicate the magician’s failings. The closing rhetorical question of v. 10 (“will you not stop…?”) shows how opposed he is to the way of God.