Matthew 23

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1 Then Yahshua spoke to the crowds and to His students
2 saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit upon the seat of Moses.
3 Therefore all things whatever they should tell you, you do and you keep. But according to their deeds you do not do. For they say and do not do.
4 And they bind burdens heavy and hard to bear and lay them upon the shoulders of men, but they with their finger do not wish to move them.
5 And all their deeds they do for which to be observed by men, for they broaden their phylacteries and make great their fringes,
6 and they love the best seats at the dinners and the first benches in the assembly halls
7 and the greetings in the markets and to be called by men 'Rabbi'!
8 "But you should not be called 'Rabbi', for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.
9 And you shall not call your father upon the earth, for One is your Father, the heavenly.
10 Neither should you be called guides, because One is your Guide, the Christ.
11 And he who is greater among you shall be your servant.
12 But whoever should exalt himself shall be humbled and whoever should humble himself shall be exalted."
13 And woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for you do not enter in, nor do you allow those entering in to enter!
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15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you go about the sea and the desert to make one convert, and when it happens you make him a son of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves! "
16 Woe to you, blind guides who say 'He who should swear by the temple, it is nothing. But he who should swear by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'
17 Foolish and blind men! For what is greater, the gold or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
18 And 'He who should swear by the altar, it is nothing, but he who should swear by the gift upon it, he is obligated.'
19 Foolish and blind men! For what is greater, the gift or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
20 Therefore he who has sworn by the altar swears by it and by all things which are upon it,
21 and he who has sworn by the temple swears by it and by Him dwelling in it,
22 and he who has sworn by heaven swears by the throne of Yahweh and by Him sitting upon it! "
23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you give a tenth of the mint and anise and cumin, and neglect the weightier matters of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. Yet it is necessary to do these things, and not neglecting those others.
24 Blind guides, straining out the gnat, but swallowing the camel!
25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but the insides are filled from rapine and incontinence!
26 Blind Pharisees, cleanse first the insides of the cup and the dish, in order that the outsides of them shall be clean! "
27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside are full of the bones of corpses and all uncleanness!
28 Thusly indeed you also outside appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness! "
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
30 and you say 'If we were in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their partners in the blood of the prophets!
31 Thusly you bear witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets,
32 and you shall fulfill the measure of your fathers!
33 Serpents! Race of vipers! How could you escape from the judgment of Gehenna? "
34 For this reason, behold! I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you shall kill and crucify, and some of them you shall flog in your assembly halls and persecute from city to city!
35 Thusly should come upon you all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharios who had been murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this race! "
37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she kills the prophets and stones those being sent to her! How often have I desired to gather your children by which manner a hen gathers her chicks beneath her wings, and you desired it not!
38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate!
39 For I say to you, by no means may you see Me from now until you should say 'Blessed is He coming in the name of Yahweh'!"