Swallowed a Camel

Mat 23:24  Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. 

The above verse was just on my heart. Conviction of some sort. Lord, grant me understanding... show me the error of my ways....grant me REPENTANCE. I am such a Pharisee. :(

While we are talking about it- what's with the camel references? Let's look at them...a little study on camels at 11:15pm never hurt anyone.... :)

Camels are "unclean" to eat...or they were...nothing is unclean anymore except to those who believe it to be unclean...to them it IS unclean...there is scripture that goes along with that, but I'm digressing... back to the scripture at hand:

Lev 11:4  Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

John the Baptist's clothes were made of camel hair:

Mat 3:4  And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 

This one kills me because I am still rich (I'm throwing down all three versions from each of the gospels (except John which doesn't mention camels:)):

Mat 19:24  And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 
Mar 10:25  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luk 18:25  For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.