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Mt Chapter 23 Verses 1-39

23:1
Then
Jesus
said
to
the
people
and
to
his
disciples:
23:2
The
scribes
and
the
Pharisees
have
the
authority
of
Moses;
23:3
All
things,
then,
which
they
give
you
orders
to
do,
these
do
and
keep:
but
do not
take
their
works
as
your
example,
for
they
say
and
do not.
23:4
They
make
hard
laws
and
put
great
weights
on
men’s
backs;
but
they
themselves
will not
put
a
finger
to
them.
23:5
But
all
their
works
they
do
so
as
to
be
seen
by
men:
for
they
make
wide
their
phylacteries,
and
the
edges
of
their
robes,
23:6
And
the
things
desired
by
them
are
the
first places
at
feasts,
and
the
chief
seats
in
the
Synagogues,
23:7
And
words
of
respect
in
the
market-places,
and
to
be
named
by
men,
Teacher.
23:8
But
you
may
not
be
named
Teacher:
for
one
is
your
teacher,
and
you
are
all
brothers.
23:9
And
give
no
man
the
name
of
father
on
earth:
because
one
is
your
Father,
who
is
in
heaven.
23:10
And
you
may
not
be
named
guides:
because
one
is
your
Guide,
even
Christ.
23:11
But
let
the
greatest
among
you
be
your
servant.
23:12
And
whoever
makes
himself
high
will
be
made
low,
and
whoever
makes
himself
low
will
be
made
high.
23:13
But
a
curse
is
on
you,
scribes
and
Pharisees,
false
ones!
because
you
are
shutting
the
kingdom
of
heaven
against
men:
for
you
do
not
go
in
yourselves,
and
those
who
are
going
in,
you
keep
back.
23:14
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23:15
A
curse
is
on
you,
scribes
and
Pharisees,
false
ones!
for
you
go
about
land
and
sea
to
get
one
disciple
and,
having
him,
you
make
him
twice
as
much
a
son
of
hell
as
yourselves.
23:16
A
curse
is
on
you,
blind
guides,
who
say,
Whoever
takes
an
oath
by
the
Temple,
it
is
nothing;
but
whoever
takes
an
oath
by
the
gold
of
the
Temple,
he
is
responsible.
23:17
You
foolish
ones
and
blind:
which
is
greater,
the
gold,
or
the
Temple
which
makes
the
gold
holy?
23:18
And,
Whoever
takes
an
oath
by
the
altar,
it
is
nothing;
but
whoever
takes
an
oath
by
the
offering
which
is
on
it,
he
is
responsible.
23:19
You
blind
ones:
which
is
greater,
the
offering,
or
the
altar
which
makes
the
offering
holy?
23:20
He,
then,
who
takes
an
oath
by
the
altar,
takes
it
by
the
altar
and
by
all
things
on
it.
23:21
And
he
who
takes
an
oath
by
the
Temple,
takes
it
by
the
Temple
and
by
him
whose
house
it
is.
23:22
And
he
who
takes
an
oath
by
heaven,
takes
it
by
the
seat
of
God,
and
by
him
who
is
seated
on
it.
23:23
A
curse
is
on
you,
scribes
and
Pharisees,
false
ones!
for
you
make
men
give
a tenth
of
all
sorts
of
sweet-smelling
plants,
but
you
give
no
thought
to
the
more
important
things
of
the
law,
righteousness,
and
mercy,
and
faith;
but
it
is
right
for
you
to
do
these,
and
not
to
let
the
others
be
undone.
23:24
You
blind
guides,
who
take out
a
fly
from
your
drink,
but
make
no
trouble
over
a
camel.
23:25
A
curse
is
on
you,
scribes
and
Pharisees,
false
ones!
for
you
make
clean
the
outside
of
the
cup
and
of
the
plate,
but
inside
they
are
full
of
violent
behaviour
and
uncontrolled
desire.
23:26
You
blind
Pharisee,
first
make
clean
the
inside
of
the
cup
and
of
the
plate,
so
that
the
outside
may
become
equally
clean.
23:27
A
curse
is
on
you,
scribes
and
Pharisees,
false
ones!
for
you
are
like
the
resting-places
of
the
dead,
which
are
made
white,
and
seem
beautiful
on
the
outside,
but
inside
are
full
of
dead
men’s
bones
and
of
all
unclean
things.
23:28
Even
so
you
seem
to
men
to
be
full
of
righteousness,
but
inside
you
are
all
false
and
full
of
wrongdoing.
23:29
A
curse
is
on
you,
scribes
and
Pharisees,
false
ones!
because
you
put
up
buildings
for
housing
the
dead
bodies
of
the
prophets,
and
make
fair
the
last
resting-places
of
good
men,
and
say,
23:30
If
we
had been
living
in
the
days
of
our
fathers,
we
would not
have
taken
part
with
them
in
the
blood
of
the
prophets.
23:31
So
that
you
are
witnesses
against
yourselves
that
you
are
the
sons
of
those
who
put
the
prophets
to
death.
23:32
Make
full,
then,
the
measure
of
your
fathers.
23:33
You
snakes,
offspring
of
snakes,
how
will you
be
kept
from
the
punishment
of
hell?
23:34
For
this
reason,
I
send
you
prophets,
and
wise men,
and
scribes:
some
of
them
you
will
put
to
death
and
put on
the
cross,
and
to
some
of
them
you
will
give
blows
in
your
Synagogues,
driving
them
from
town
to
town;
23:35
So
that
on
you
may
come
all
the
blood
of
the
upright
on
the
earth,
from
the
blood
of
upright
Abel
to
the
blood
of
Zachariah,
son
of
Barachiah,
whom
you
put
to
death
between
the
Temple
and
the
altar.
23:36
Truly
I
say
to
you,
All
these
things
will
come
on
this
generation.
23:37
O
Jerusalem,
Jerusalem,
putting
to
death
the
prophets,
and
stoning
those
who
are
sent
to
her!
Again
and
again
would
I
have
taken
your
children
to
myself
as
a
bird
takes
her
young
ones
under
her
wings,
and
you
would not!
23:38
See,
your
house
is
made
waste.
23:39
For
I
say
to
you,
You
will not
see
me
from
this
time
till
you
say,
A
blessing
on
him
who
comes in
the
name
of
the
Lord.