1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,
2 saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses.
3 Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as
4 And they tie up burdens
5 And they do all their deeds in order to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries broad and make their
6 And they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues
7 and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people.
8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ because one is your teacher, and you are all brothers,
9 And do not call
10 And do not be called teachers, because one is your teacher, the Christ.
11 And the greatest among you will be your servant.
12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you travel around the sea and the dry
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound
17 Fools and blind
18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gift
19 Blind
20 Therefore the one who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything
21 And the one who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells
22 And the one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by the one who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important
24 Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!
26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!
28 In the
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
30 and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!’
31 Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets!
32 And you—fill up the measure of your fathers!
33 Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?
34 For this
35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 Truly I say to you, all these
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together
38 Behold, your house has been left to you desolate!
39 For I tell you, you will never see me from now