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Title: New Testament, The
Book: Matthew
Author: Various
Date: 1881
Chapter 23
Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying, The
scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat: all things therefore whatsoever
they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they
say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens ^1 and grievous to be borne,
and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with
their finger. But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make
broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love
the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the
salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi. But be not
ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren. And call
no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, ^2 even he who is in
heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the
Christ. But he that is ^3 greatest among you shall be your ^4 servant. And
whosoever shall exalt himself shallibe humbled; and whosoever shall humble
himself shall be exalted.
[Footnote 1: Many ancient authorities omit and grievous to be borne.]
[Footnote 2: Gr. the heavenly.]
[Footnote 3: Gr. greater.]
[Footnote 4: Or, minister]
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the
kingdom of heaven ^5 against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither
suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. ^6
[Footnote 5: Gr. before.]
[Footnote 6: Some authorities insert here, or after ver. 12, ver. 14 Woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, even
while for a pretence ye make long prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater
condemnation. See Mk. 12. 40; Lk. 20. 47.]
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and
land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more
a son of ^7 hell than yourselves.
[Footnote 7: Gr. Gekenna.]
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the ^8
temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the ^8 temple,
he is ^9 a debtor. Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the
^8 temple that hath sanctified the gold? And, Whosoever shall swear by the
altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it,
he is ^9 a debtor. Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar
that sanctifieth the gift? He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth
by it, and by all things thereon. And he that sweareth by the ^8 temple,
sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that sweareth by the
heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
[Footnote 8: Or, sanctuary: as in ver. 35.]
[Footnote 9: Or, bound by his oath]
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and
^10 anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law,
justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to
have left the other undone. Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and
swallow the camel!
[Footnote 10: Or, dill]
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the
outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion
and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of
the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto
whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of
dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the
sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, and say,
If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers
with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye witness to yourselves,
that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure
of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the
judgment of ^7 hell? Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise
men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them
shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: that
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of
Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew
between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things
shall come upon this generation.
[Footnote 7: Gr. Gekenna.]
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that
are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you ^1 desolate. 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.
[Footnote 1: Some ancient authorities omit desolate.]