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¹ Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses seat:³ all things therefore whatever they bid you, [these] do and observe: but do not do after their works; for they say, and do not do.⁴ Yes, they bind loads that are heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.⁵ But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders [of their garments],⁶ and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,⁷ and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi.⁸ But don't be called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all you are brothers.⁹ And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, [even] he who is in heaven.¹⁰ Neither be called masters: for one is your master, the Christ.¹¹ But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.¹² And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those that are entering in to enter.¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he has become so, you make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.¹⁶ Woe to you, you blind guides, that say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.¹⁷ You fools and blind men: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that has sanctified the gold?¹⁸ And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is on it, he is a debtor.¹⁹ You blind men: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?²⁰ He therefore that swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things thereon.²¹ And he that swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that dwells therein.²² And he that swears by the heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits thereon.²³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and anise and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these you ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.²⁴ You blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full from extortion and lack of self-control.²⁶ You blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, that the outside thereof may become clean also.²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whited tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all impurity.²⁸ Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,³⁰ 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.³¹ Therefore you witness to yourselves, that you are sons of those that slew the prophets.³² You fill up then the measure of your fathers.³³ You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how shall you escape the judgment of hell?

³⁴ Therefore, look, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the sanctuary and the altar.³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things shall come on this generation.³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those that are sent to her! how often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you did not want [to]!³⁸ Look, your house is left to you desolate.³⁹ For I say to you, You shall not see me from now on, until you shall say, Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of the Lord.