23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law 3 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, 4 and when you get one, 5 you make him twice as much a child of hell 6 as yourselves!
1 tn Grk “And he said to them.”
2 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate a conclusion and transition in the narrative.
3 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
4 tn Or “one proselyte.”
5 tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”
6 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.”