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1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowd and to His disciples,
2 saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3 Therefore, whatever they command you to pay careful attention to, pay careful attention to and do those things, but don't do according their works, for they talk but they don't do.
4 For they bind heavy burdens that are difficult to carry and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But they do all their works to be seen by men; they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,
7 and greetings in the markets and to be called, 'Rabbi, Rabbi,' by people.
8 But don't you be called Rabbi, for One is your Teacher, that is Christ, and all of you are brothers.
9 And don't call any man your father on the Earth, for One is your Father, Who is in Heaven.
10 Don't call anny man your Teacher, for One is your Teacher, Christ.
11 But the great among you shall be your servant.
12 And whoever exalts himself will be abased, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you obstruct the entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven standing in people's way, for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you consume widows' houses, and you make long prayer for a cover-up, therefore you shall receive the greater judgment.
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you wander around sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twice as much of a child of hell than you are.
16 Woe to you, you blind teachers who say that whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17 You are blind fools!  For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
18 And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is guilty.
19 You are blind fools!  For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
20 Whoever therefore shall swear by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it.
21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it, and by Him Who dwells therein.
22 And whoever swear by Heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by Him Who sits above.
23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and dill and cummin, and have abandoned the weightier matters of the law: judgment, kindness, and supernatural belief and trust.  You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.
24 You are blind teachers who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
25 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you make the outside of the cup and of the platter pure, but inside they are full of robbery and lack of self-control.
26 You blind Pharisee, purify that which is inside the cup and platter first so that the outside of them may be pure also.
27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness inside.
28 In the same way, you indeed appear righteous to people outwardly, but you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity within.
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the sepulchers of the righteous,
30 And say, 'If we had been alive in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the children of those who killed the prophets.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
33 You snakes, you generation of poisonous snakes, how can you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
34 Therefore, I send prophets, and wise men, and scribes to you, and some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
35 So that all the righteous bloodshed upon the Earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar may come on you.
36 Truly I say to you that all these things shall come on this generation.
37 Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I desired to  gather your children together, in the same way that a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you weren't willing!
38 Your family is sent away from you empty.
39 For I say to you, you shall not see Me, you will be cut off, from this moment until the time that you say, 'Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord.'"