Matthew 16:3

16:3 and in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.’ ¹  You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky, ²  but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times.

Matthew 23:13

23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law ³  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! ⁴  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! ⁵  For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

¹ tn Or “red and gloomy” (L&N 14.56).

² tn Grk “The face of the sky you know how to discern.”

³ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

⁴ 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).

⁵ tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”