CHAP. XXIII.
Christ admonishes the people to
follow the good doctrine,
not the bad example of the
scribes and Pharisees: he
warns his disciples not to
imitate their ambition:
and denounces divers woes
against them for their hypocrisy
and blindness.
1 Then Jesus spoke to
the multitude and to
his disciples,
2 Saying: The scribes and
the Pharisees have sitten on
the chair of Moses.
3 All therefore whatsoever
they shall say to you, observe
and do: but according to
their works do ye not: for
they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy
and insupportable burdens:
and lay them on mens shoulders:
but with a finger of
their own they will not move
them.
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5 And all their works
they do for to be seen of
men. For they make their
note phylacteries broad and enlarge
their fringes.
6 And they love the first
places at feasts, and the first
chairs in the synagogues,
7 And salutations in the
market-place, and to be called
by men, Rabbi.
8 But be not you called
Rabbi. For one is your master,
and all you are brethern.
9 And note call none your
father upon earth: for one
is your father, who is in
heaven.
10 Neither be ye called
note masters: for one is your
master, Christ.
11 He that is the greatest
among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall
exalt himself, shall be humbled:
and he that shall humble
himself, shall be exalted.
13 But wo to you scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites:
because you shut the kingdom
of heaven against men: for
you go not in your selves:
and those that are going in,
you suffer not to enter.
14 Wo to you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites: because
you devour the houses
of widows, making long prayers:
therefore you shall
receive the greater judgment.
15 Wo to you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites: because
you go round about sea
and land to make one proselyte:
and when he is made,
you make him the child of
hell twofold more than your
selves.
16 Wo to you blind guides,
that say: Whosoever shall
swear by the temple, it is
nothing: but he that shall
swear by the gold of the
temple, is a debtor.
17 Ye foolish and blind:
for whether is greater, the
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gold, or the temple that
sanctifieth the gold?
18 And whosoever shall
swear by the altar, it is nothing:
but whosoever shall
swear by the gift that is upon
it, he is a debtor.
19 Ye blind: for whether
is greater, the gift, or the
altar that sanctifieth the
gift?
20 He therefore that sweareth
by the altar, sweareth by
it, and by all things that are
upon it:
21 And whosoever shall
swear by the temple, sweareth
by it, and by him that
dwelleth in it:
22 And he that sweareth
by heaven, sweareth by the
throne of God, and by him
that sitteth thereon.
23 Wo to you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites: who
pay tithe of mint, and anise,
and cummin, and have let
alone the weightier things of
the law, judgment, and mercy,
and faith. These things
you ought to have done, and
not to leave those others undone.
24 Blind guides, who strain
out a gnat, and swallow a
camel.
25 Wo to you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites: because
you make clean the outside
of the cup and of the dish:
but within you are full of
extortion and uncleanness.
26 Thou blind Pharisee,
first make clean the inside
of the cup and of the dish,
that the outside may become
clean.
27 Wo to you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites: because
you are like to whited sepulchres,
which outwardly appear
to men beautiful, but
within are full of dead mens
bones, and of all filthiness.
28 So you also outwardly
indeed appear to men just;
but within you are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Wo to you scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites, who
note build the sepulchres of
the prophets, and adorn the
monuments of the just,
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.
31 Wherefore you are
witnesses against yourselves,
that you are the sons of them
that killed the prophets.
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32 Fill ye up then the
measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents, generation
of vipers, how will you
escape the judgment of hell?
34 Therefore behold I send
to you prophets, and wise
men, and scribes: and some
of them you will put to death,
and crucify, and some you
will scourge in your synagogues,
and persecute them
from city to city:
35 noteThat upon you
may come all the just blood
that hath been shed upon the
earth, from the blood of Abel
the just, even unto the
blood of Zacharias the son
of Barachias, whom you killed
between the temple and
the altar.
36 Amen I say to you all
these things shall come upon
this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou that killest the
prophets, and stonest them
that are sent unto thee, how
often would I have gathered
together thy children, as the
hen gathereth her chickens,
under her wings, and thou
wouldest not?
38 Behold, your house
shall be left to you desolate.
39 For I say to you, you
shall not see me henceforth
till you say: Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the
Lord.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
