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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Matthew 23 WEY</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEY</a> > Matthew 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/22.htm" title="Matthew 22">◄</a> Matthew 23 <a href="../matthew/24.htm" title="Matthew 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Weymouth New testament</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Woes to Scribes and Pharisees<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/11.htm#37">Luke 11:37-54</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jesus addressed the crowds and His disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"The Scribes," He said, "and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore do and observe everything that they command you; but do not imitate their lives, for though they tell others what to do, they do not do it themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to lift them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and like to be bowed to in places of public resort, and to be addressed by men as 'Rabbi.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"As for you, do not accept the title of 'Rabbi,' for one alone is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And call no one on earth your Father, for One alone is your Father—the Heavenly Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And do not accept the name of 'leader,' for your Leader is one alone—the Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He who is the greatest among you shall be your servant; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and one who exalts himself shall be abased, while one who abases himself shall be exalted.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"But alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you lock the door of the Kingdom of the Heavens against men; you yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those to enter who are seeking to do so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you scour sea and land in order to win one convert—and when he is gained, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, "'Whoever swears by the Sanctuary it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, is bound by the oath.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"Blind fools! Why, which is greater? —the gold, or the Sanctuary which has made the gold holy? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And you say, "'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the offering lying on it is bound by the oath.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"You are blind! Why, which is greater? —the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He who swears by the altar swears both by it and by everything on it; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>he who swears by the Sanctuary swears both by it and by Him who dwells in it; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and he who swears by Heaven swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay the tithe on mint, dill, and cumin, while you have neglected the weightier requirements of the Law—just judgement, mercy, and faithful dealing. These things you ought to have done, and yet you ought not to have left the others undone. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp down the camel!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they are full of greed and self-indulgence. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are just like whitewashed sepulchres, the outside of which pleases the eye, though inside they are full of dead men's bones and of all that is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you repair the sepulchres of the Prophets and keep in order the tombs of the righteous, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and your boast is, "'If we had lived in the time of our forefathers, we should not have been implicated with them in the murder of the Prophets.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>"So that you bear witness against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the Prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>"For this reason I am sending to you Prophets and wise men and Scribes. Some of them you will put to death—nay, crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and chase from town to town; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>that all the innocent blood shed upon earth may come on you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>I tell you in solemn truth that all these things will come upon the present generation.</p> <a name="37" id="37"></a><p class="hdg">Lament over Jerusalem<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/13.htm#31">Luke 13:31-35</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children to me, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not come! <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>See, your house will now be left to you desolate! <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/23-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>For I tell you that you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed be He who comes in the name of the Lord.'"</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Weymouth New testament<br /><br /><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/matthew/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>