Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Ye blind guides (odhgoi tufloi). Note omission of "Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites" with this third woe. In Matthew 15:14 Jesus had already called the Pharisees "blind guides" (leaders). They split hairs about oaths, as Jesus had explained in Matthew 5:33-37, between the temple and the gold of the temple.
He is a debtor (ofeilei). He owes his oath, is bound by his oath. A.V.,
is guilty, is old English, obsolete sense of guilt as fine or payment.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 9:39
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