Matthew 15:14
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| Matthew 15:14 | |
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← 15:13 15:15 → | |
| Book | Gospel of Matthew |
| Christian Bible part | New Testament |
Matthew 15:14 is a verse in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort for this verse is:
- Ἄφετε αὐτούς· ὁδηγοί εἰσι τυφλοὶ τυφλῶν· τυφλὸς δὲ τυφλὸν ἐὰν ὁδηγῇ, ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον πεσοῦνται.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
- Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The New International Version translates the passage as:
- Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
Analysis
By, "let them alone," according to Lapide Christ means: let the Scribes be scandalised. Do not be bothered that they are offended with my doctrine and correction. Being blind, they do not see the light of truth, which I set before them. Rather in their error, they make sanctity consist in washing and other external things. They are incorrigible, and are leaders of the blind, namely, of those to whom they teach. [1]
The "pit" here appears to imply that their ruin will be eternal.[2]
