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Matthew 15:14 — King James Version← Study notes

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.


Matthew 15:14Greek Interlinear

Greek · Matthew 15:1415 words
GreekMeaning
ἄφετεaphete
do leaveverbG863
αὐτούςautous
thempronounG846
τυφλοίtyphloi
BlindadjectiveG5185
εἰσινeisin
they areverbG1510
ὁδηγοὶhodēgoi
guidesnounG3595
τυφλῶνtyphlōn
of the blindadjectiveG5185
τυφλὸςtyphlos
BlindadjectiveG5185
δὲde
nowwordG1161
τυφλὸνtyphlon
blindadjectiveG5185
ἐὰνean
ifwordG1437
ὁδηγῇhodēgē
they shall leadverbG3594
ἀμφότεροιamphoteroi
bothadjectiveG297
εἰςeis
intoprepositionG1519
βόθυνονbothynon
a pitnounG999
πεσοῦνταιpesountai
will fallverbG4098
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Matthew 15:14

In one of the Lord’s discourses the whole superstition of Jewish observances had been cut down. They placed their whole religion in using or abstaining from certain meats.

Jerome · 4th century

When the Pharisees heard the things that went before, they made no reply to them, because He had so mightily overthrown them, not only refuting their arguments, but detecting their fraud, but they, not the multitudes, were offended at them.

Chrysostom · 4th century

What He intends then by a plant not planted of His Father, is that tradition of men under cover of which the Law had been transgressed, this He instructs them must be rooted up.

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century
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