Christ upbraideth the Scribes for their hypocrisy -- Weepeth over Jerusalem.

¹⁾Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2)Saying saying, The scribesScribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:.

³²⁾All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, thatthey will make you observe and do; butfor they are ministers of the law, and they make themselves your judges. But do not ye after their works:; for they say, and do not.

⁴³⁾For they bind heavy burdens and lay on men's shoulders, and they are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

⁵⁴⁾ButAnd all their works they do for to be seen of men:. theyThey make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6)And and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7)And and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi, (which is master.)

⁸⁵⁾But be not ye called Rabbi:; for one is your Mastermaster, evenwhich is Christ; and all ye are brethren.

⁹⁶⁾And call no manone your fathercreator upon the earth:, or your heavenly Father; for one is your creator and heavenly Father, whicheven he who is in heaven.

¹⁰⁷⁾Neither be ye called masters:; for one is your Mastermaster, even he whom your heavenly Father sent, which is Christ; for he hath sent him among you that ye might have life.

¹¹⁸⁾But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

¹²⁹⁾And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased of him; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted of him.

¹³¹⁰⁾But woe unto you, scribesScribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! forFor 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.

¹⁴¹¹⁾Woe unto you, scribesScribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!Pharisees! for ye are hypocrites! Ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretencepretense make long prayer:prayers; therefore ye shall receive the greater damnationpunishment.

¹⁵¹²⁾Woe unto you, scribesScribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! forFor ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte,; and when he is made, ye make him twofoldtwo-fold more the child of hell than he was before, like unto yourselves.

¹⁶¹³⁾Woe unto you, ye blind guides, whichwho say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he committeth sin, and is a debtor!debtor.

¹⁷¹⁴⁾YeYou are fools and blind:; for whetherwhich is the greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

¹⁸¹⁵⁾And ye say, Whosoever shall swearsweareth by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

¹⁹¹⁶⁾YeO fools, and blind:blind! forFor whetherwhich is the greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

²⁰¹⁷⁾Verily I say unto you, Whoso, therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, sweareth by the altar, and by all things thereon.

²¹¹⁸⁾And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him thatwho dwelleth therein.

²²¹⁹⁾And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him thatwho sitteth thereon.

²³²⁰⁾Woe unto you, scribesScribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! forFor ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin,; and have omitted the weightier mattersthings of the law,; judgment, mercy, and faith:; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

²⁴²¹⁾Ye blind guides, whichwho strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel; who make yourselves appear unto men that ye would not commit the least sin, and yet ye yourselves, transgress the whole law.

²⁵²²⁾Woe unto you, scribesScribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! forFor ye make clean the outside of the cup, and of the platter,; but within they are full of extortion and excess.

²⁶²³⁾ThouYe blind Pharisee,Pharisees! cleanseCleanse first that which is within the cup and platter within, that the outside of them may be clean also.

²⁷²⁴⁾Woe unto you, scribesScribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! forFor ye are like unto whited sepulchressepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardoutwardly, but are within full of dead men'sthe bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.

²⁸²⁵⁾Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

²⁹²⁶⁾Woe unto you, scribesScribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! becauseBecause ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchressepulchers of the righteous,

³⁰²⁷⁾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.;

³¹²⁸⁾Wherefore, ye beare witnesses unto yourselves of your own wickedness, thatand ye are the children of them whichwho killed the prophets.;

³²²⁹⁾FillAnd yewill fill up then the measure then of your fathers; for ye, yourselves, kill the prophets like unto your fathers.

³³³⁰⁾Ye serpents, yeand generation of vipers,vipers! howHow can ye escape the damnation of hell?

³⁴³¹⁾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 ye shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:;

³⁵³²⁾That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias, sonSon of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

³⁶³³⁾Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

³⁴⁾Ye bear testimony against your fathers, when ye, yourselves, are partakers of the same wickedness.

³⁵⁾Behold your fathers did it through ignorance, but ye do not; wherefore, their sins shall be upon your heads.

³⁶⁾Then Jesus began to weep over Jerusalem, saying,

³⁷⁾O Jerusalem,Jerusalem! Jerusalem,Jerusalem! thouYe thatwho killestwill kill the prophets, and stonestwill stone them whichwho are sent unto thee,you; how often would I have gathered thyyour children together, even as a hen gatherethgathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!not.

³⁸⁾Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.desolate!

³⁹⁾For I say unto you, Yethat ye shall not see me henceforth, tilland know that I am he of whom it is written by the prophets, until ye shall say,

⁴⁰⁾Blessed is he thatwho cometh in the name of the Lord, in the clouds of heaven, and all the holy angels with him.

⁴¹⁾Then understood his disciples that he should come again on the earth, after that he was glorified and crowned on the right hand of God.