1Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2Saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but after their works do not: for they say, and do not.
4For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5All their works they do for to be seen of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and make long the fringes of their garments,
6And love the chief place at feasts, and to have the chief seats in the assemblies,
7And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8But be not ye called, Rabbi: for one is your doctor, to wit, Christ, and all ye are brethren.
9And call no man your father upon the earth: for there is but one, your father which is in heaven.
10Be not called doctors: for one is your doctor, even Christ.
11But he that is greatest among you, let him be your servant.
12For whosoever will exalt himself, shall be brought low: and whosoever will humble himself, shall be exalted.
13Woe therefore be unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: for ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.
14Woe be unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour widows’ houses, even under a color of long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15Woe be unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye compass sea and land to make one of your profession: and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell, than you yourselves.
16Woe be unto you blind guides, which say, Whosoever sweareth by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoever sweareth by the gold of the Temple, he offendeth.
17Ye fools and blind, Whether is greater, the gold, or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18And whosoever sweareth by the altar, it is nothing: but whosoever sweareth by the offering that is upon it, offendeth.
19Ye fools and blind, whether is greater, the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering?
20Whosoever therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21And whosoever sweareth by the Temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth theron.
23Woe be to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and leave the weightier matters of the law, as judgment, and mercy and fidelity. These ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other.
24Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25Woe be to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye make clean the utter side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are full of bribery and excess.
26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27Woe be to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like unto whited tombs, which appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and all filthiness.
28So are ye also: for outward ye appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29Woe be unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye build the tombs of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.
31So then ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them that murdered the Prophets.
32Fulfill ye also the measure of your fathers.
33O serpents, the generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell!
34Wherefore behold, I send unto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucify: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from city to city,
35That upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom ye slew between the Temple and the altar.
36Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38Behold, your habitation shall be left unto you desolate.
39For I say unto you, ye shall not see me henceforth till that ye say, Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord.