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1 Then spake Je­sus to the mul­ti­tude, and to his dis­ci­ples, 2 Say­ing, The scribes and the Phar­isees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All there­fore what­so­ev­er they bid you ob­serve, that ob­serve and do; but do not ye af­ter their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy bur­dens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoul­ders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fin­gers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phy­lac­ter­ies, and en­large the bor­ders of their gar­ments, 6 And love the up­per­most rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the syn­a­gogues, 7 And greet­ings in the mar­kets, and to be called of men, Rab­bi, Rab­bi. 8 But be not ye called Rab­bi: for one is your Mas­ter, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9 And call no man your fa­ther upon the earth: for one is your Fa­ther, which is in heav­en. 10 Nei­ther be ye called mas­ters: for one is your Mas­ter, even Christ. 11 But he that is great­est among you shall be your ser­vant. 12 And whoso­ev­er shall ex­alt him­self shall be abased; and he that shall hum­ble him­self shall be ex­alt­ed. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Phar­isees, hyp­ocrites! for ye shut up the king­dom of heav­en against men: for ye nei­ther go in yourselves, nei­ther suf­fer ye them that are en­ter­ing to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Phar­isees, hyp­ocrites! for ye de­vour wid­ows' hous­es, and for a pre­tence make long prayer: there­fore ye shall re­ceive the greater damna­tion. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Phar­isees, hyp­ocrites! for ye com­pass sea and land to make one pros­e­lyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than your­selves. 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whoso­ev­er shall swear by the tem­ple, it is noth­ing; but whoso­ev­er shall swear by the gold of the tem­ple, he is a debtor! 17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the tem­ple that sanc­ti­fi­eth the gold? 18 And, Whoso­ev­er shall swear by the al­tar, it is noth­ing; but whoso­ev­er sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the al­tar that sanc­ti­fi­eth the gift? 20 Whoso there­fore shall swear by the al­tar, sweareth by it, and by all things there­on. 21 And whoso shall swear by the tem­ple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth there­in. 22 And he that shall swear by heav­en, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sit­teth there­on. 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Phar­isees, hyp­ocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cum­min, and have omit­ted the weight­i­er matters of the law, judg­ment, mer­cy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the oth­er un­done. 24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swal­low a camel. 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Phar­isees, hyp­ocrites! for ye make clean the out­side of the cup and of the plat­ter, but with­in they are full of ex­tor­tion and ex­cess. 26 Thou blind Phar­isee, cleanse first that which is with­in the cup and plat­ter, that the out­side of them may be clean al­so. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Phar­isees, hyp­ocrites! for ye are like unto whit­ed sepul­chres, which in­deed ap­pear beau­ti­ful out­ward, but are with­in full of dead men's bones, and of all un­clean­ness. 28 Even so ye also out­ward­ly ap­pear righ­teous unto men, but with­in ye are full of hypocrisy and in­iq­ui­ty. 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Phar­isees, hyp­ocrites! be­cause ye build the tombs of the prophets, and gar­nish the sepul­chres of the righ­teous, 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 ye be wit­ness­es unto your­selves, that ye are the chil­dren of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the mea­sure of your fa­thers. 33 Ye ser­pents, ye gen­er­a­tion of vipers, how can ye es­cape the damna­tion of hell? 34 Where­fore, be­hold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and cru­ci­fy; and some of them shall ye scourge in your syn­a­gogues, and per­se­cute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righ­teous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righ­teous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew be­tween the tem­ple and the al­tar. 36 Ver­i­ly I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this gen­er­a­tion. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and ston­est them which are sent unto thee, how of­ten would I have gath­ered thy chil­dren to­geth­er, even as a hen gath­ereth her chick­ens un­der her wings, and ye would not! 38 Be­hold, your house is left unto you des­o­late. 39 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.