Mateus 23

¹ Then Jeshu discoursed with the multitudes and with his disciples,

² and said to them, Upon the chair of Musha sit the scribes and the Pharishee.

³ Every thing, therefore, which they tell you to observe, observe and do; but after their practices do not act; for they say, and do not.

⁴ And they bind heavy burdens, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but they with their fingers are not willing to touch them.

⁵ And all their works they do that they may be seen of men; for they widen their tephillin, and lengthen the fringes of their waving vestments,

⁶ and love the chief reclining-places at evening feasts, and the highest seats in synagogues,

⁷ and the shaloma in public places, and to be called of men Râbi.

⁸ But be you not called Râbi: for One is your Master; but all ye are brethren.

⁹ And call no man Abâ to you upon earth: for One is your Father, who is in heaven.

¹⁰ Neither be ye called Medabronee: for One is your Guide,-the Meshicha.

¹¹ But he who is great among you, let him be your servitor.

¹² For whosoever will exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever will abase himself shall be exalted.

¹³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you hold the kingdom of heaven closed before the children of men; for you will not enter in yourselves, and them who are entering you will not permit to enter.

¹⁴ WOE to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you devour the houses of widows, with the pretext of prolonging your prayers; on account of which you shall receive the greater judgment.

¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you go over sea and dry (land) to make one proselyte; and when you have done it, you make him doubly more a son of gihana than yourselves.

¹⁶ Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, That who sweareth by the temple, it is nothing; but if he swear by the gold which is in the temple, he is liable!

¹⁷ You senseless and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

¹⁸ And (that) whoever sweareth by the altar, it is nothing; but he swear by the oblation which is upon it, he is liable.

¹⁹ You foolish and sightless! for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation?

²⁰ He therefore who sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it.

²¹ And he who sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by whatever abideth in it.

²² And whosoever sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of Aloha, and by Him who sitteth thereon.

²³ Woe to you, scribes, Pharishee, hypocrites! because you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and omit the more grave of the law,-justice, benignity, and faithfulness. For these you should have done, and those not omitted.

²⁴ You blind guides, who strain out gnats and swallow camels.

²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! who cleanse the outside of the cup and dish (which) within are full of rapine and injustice.

²⁶ Sightless Pharishee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the dish, that their outside also may be clean.

²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! for you are like whited sepulchres, which without appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity.

²⁸ So you also from without appear to the sons of men as righteous, but within you are full of unrighteousness and hypocrisy.

²⁹ WOE to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! because you rebuild the tombs of the prophets and beautify the sepulchres of the just; and say,

³⁰ If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been with them partakers in the blood of the prophets:

³¹ thus bearing witness against yourselves, that you are the sons of them who killed the prophets.

³² And you also,-complete the measure of your fathers.

³³ Serpents, birth of vipers! how will you escape from the judgment of gihana?

³⁴ On this account, behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; (some) of these you shall kill and crucify; and (some) of these you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city.

³⁵ So that there shall come upon you all the blood of the just which hath been shed upon the earth; from the blood of Habil the righteous, unto the blood of Zakaria-bar-Barakia, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

³⁶ Amen I say unto you, that all these shall come upon this generation.

³⁷ Urishlem, Urishlem! who killest the prophets, and stonest them who are sent unto her, what times would I have gathered thy children, as gathereth the hen her young ones beneath her wings, and you would not!

³⁸ Lo, your house is left unto you desolate.

³⁹ For I say unto you, That you shall not see me from henceforth, until you shall say, Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord.