Matius 23:15

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ²  and when you get one, ³  you make him twice as much a child of hell ⁴  as yourselves!

[23:15]  ¹ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ² tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ³ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ⁴ 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.”

[23:15]  sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.