MT-23:1  Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

MT-23:2  Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses'

seat:

MT-23:3  All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, [that]

observe and do;

but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

MT-23:4  For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne,

and lay [them]

on men's shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them

with one of their

fingers.

MT-23:5  But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they

make broad

their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

MT-23:6  And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief

seats in the

synagogues,

MT-23:7  And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men,

Rabbi, Rabbi.

MT-23:8  But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master,

[even] Christ; and

all ye are brethren.

MT-23:9  And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one

is your Father,

which is in heaven.

MT-23:10  Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master,

[even] Christ.

MT-23:11  But he that is greatest among you shall be your

servant.

MT-23:12  And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and

he that shall

humble himself shall be exalted.

MT-23:13  But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

for ye shut up

the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in

[yourselves], neither

suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

MT-23:14  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for

ye devour

widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore

ye shall receive

the greater damnation.

MT-23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for

ye compass sea

and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him

twofold more

the child of hell than yourselves.

MT-23:16  Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever

shall swear by

the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold

of the temple,

he is a debtor!

MT-23:17  [Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold,

 or the temple

that sanctifieth the gold?

MT-23:18  And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing;

 but whosoever

sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

MT-23:19  [Ye] fools and blind: for whether [is] greater, the

gift, or the

altar that sanctifieth the gift?

MT-23:20  Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by

it, and by all

things thereon.

MT-23:21  And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it,

and by him that

dwelleth therein.

MT-23:22  And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the

throne of God, and

by him that sitteth thereon.

MT-23:23  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for

ye pay tithe of

mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier

[matters] of the law,

judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not

to leave the

other undone.

MT-23:24  [Ye] blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow

a camel.

MT-23:25  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for

ye make clean

the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are

full of

extortion and excess.

MT-23:26  [Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is]

within the cup

and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

MT-23:27  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for

ye are like unto

whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but

are within full

of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.

MT-23:28  Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,

but within ye

are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

MT-23:29  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

because ye build the

tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the

righteous,

MT-23:30  And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we

would not have

been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

MT-23:31  Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are

the children

of them which killed the prophets.

MT-23:32  Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

MT-23:33  [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye

escape the

damnation of hell?

MT-23:34  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise

men, and

scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and

[some] of them shall

ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to

city:

MT-23:35  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed

upon the earth,

from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son

of Barachias,

whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

MT-23:36  Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come

upon this

generation.

MT-23:37  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the

prophets, and stonest

them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered

thy children

together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her] wings,

 and ye would

not!

MT-23:38  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

MT-23:39  For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth,

till ye shall

say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

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