. This is found in Matt. only. As to the general subject of oaths, comp. on 5:33–37. Here the Saviour confines himself to one point, viz., that the Scribes and Pharisees wickedly encourage the people to violate oaths, by making untenable and silly distinctions between certain oaths as binding and certain others as not binding. Woe unto you, as in v. 13. Ye blind guides, see on 15:14. A religious teacher who gives misleading instruction