You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
The temple that sanctifieth the gold - To sanctify is to make holy. The gold had no holiness but what it derived from the temple. If in any other place, it would be no more holy than any other gold. It was foolish, then, to suppose that that was more holy than the temple, from which it received all the sanctity which it possessed.