The Good News According to Mattityahu, Chapter 23
{23:1} Then Yeshua spoke to the multitudes and to his
[1>]talmidim[<1], {23:2} saying, "The [2>]Sofrim[<2] and the Perushim
sat on Moshe#s seat. {23:3} All things therefore whatever they tell
you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they
say, and don't do. {23:4} For they bind heavy burdens that are
grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they
themselves will not lift a finger to help them. {23:5} But all their
works they do to be seen by men. They make their tefillin broad,
enlarge the [3>]tzitziyot[<3] of their garments, {23:6} and love the
place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, {23:7} the
salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by
men. {23:8} But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher,
the Messiah, and all of you are brothers. {23:9} Call no man on the
[4>]eretz[<4] your father, for one is your Father, he who is in
heaven. {23:10} Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the
Messiah. {23:11} But he who is greatest among you will be your
servant. {23:12} Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever
humbles himself will be exalted.
{23:13} "Woe to you, [5>]Sofrim[<5] and Perushim, hypocrites! For
you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers.
Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
{23:14} "But woe to you, [6>]Sofrim[<6] and Perushim, hypocrites!
Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't
enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to
enter. {23:15} Woe to you, [7>]Sofrim[<7] and Perushim, hypocrites!
For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when
he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehinnom as
yourselves.
{23:16} "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by
the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the
temple, he is obligated.' {23:17} You blind fools! For which is
greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? {23:18}
'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the
gift that is on it, he is a obligated.' {23:19} You blind fools! For
which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
{23:20} He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by
everything on it. {23:21} He who swears by the temple, swears by it,
and by him who was living in it. {23:22} He who swears by heaven,
swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.
{23:23} "Woe to you, [8>]Sofrim[<8] and Perushim, hypocrites! For
you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier
matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have
done these, and not to have left the other undone. {23:24} You blind
guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
{23:25} "Woe to you, [9>]Sofrim[<9] and Perushim, hypocrites! For
you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they
are full of extortion and unrighteousness. {23:26} You blind Parush,
first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside
of it may become clean also.
{23:27} "Woe to you, [10>]Sofrim[<10] and Perushim, hypocrites! For
you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but
inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. {23:28}
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you
are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
{23:29} "Woe to you, [11>]Sofrim[<11] and Perushim, hypocrites! For
you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the
righteous, {23:30} and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our
fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the
prophets.' {23:31} Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are
children of those who killed the prophets. {23:32} Fill up, then, the
measure of your fathers. {23:33} You serpents, you offspring of
vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehinnom? {23:34}
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and
[12>]Sofrim[<12]. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of
them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to
city; {23:35} that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the
[13>]eretz[<13], from the blood of righteous Hevel to the blood of
Zekharyah son of Berekhyah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and
the altar. {23:36} Most assuredly I tell you, all these things will
come upon this generation.
{23:37} "Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, who kills the prophets, and
stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your
children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings,
and you would not! {23:38} Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
{23:39} For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you
say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"
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Footnotes:
[1] {23:1} disciples
[2] {23:2} scribes
[3] {23:5} fringes
[4] {23:9} earth
[5] {23:13} scribes
[6] {23:14} scribes
[7] {23:15} scribes
[8] {23:23} scribes
[9] {23:25} scribes
[10] {23:27} scribes
[11] {23:29} scribes
[12] {23:34} scribes
[13] {23:35} earth
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