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.
23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law 4 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, 5 and when you get one, 6 you make him twice as much a child of hell 7 as yourselves!
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.”
4 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
5 tn Or “one proselyte.”
6 tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”
7 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.”