These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Matthew 23
Brit Hadashah 38 verses
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Then addressed the crowds and His disciples.
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“The Scribes,” He said, “and the Pharisees sit in the chair of .
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- 3 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.
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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.
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- 5 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large,
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and the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues,
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and like to be bowed to in places of public resort, and to be addressed by men as ‘Rabbi.’
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- 8 “As for you, do not accept the title of ‘Rabbi,’ for one alone is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.
- 9 And call no one on earth your Father, for One alone is your Father—the Heavenly Father.
- 10 And do not accept the of ‘leader,’ for your Leader is one alone—the .
- 11 He who is the greatest among you shall be your ;
- 12 and one who exalts himself shall be abased, while one who abases himself shall be exalted.
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“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.
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Luke 11:52 Matthew 23:27 Matthew 23:29 Zechariah 11:17 Acts 8:1 Matthew 23:23 John 9:22 Acts 13:8 John 7:46-52 Acts 5:40 Isaiah 33:14 Matthew 23:25 2 Timothy 4:15 Luke 11:43-44 Acts 4:17-18 2 Timothy 3:8 Matthew 23:13-15 Acts 5:28 John 9:34 Isaiah 9:14-15 John 9:24 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 Matthew 21:31-32 - 15 “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 as yourselves.
- 16 “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.’
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“Blind fools! Why, which is greater?—the gold, or the Sanctuary which has made the gold ?
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- 18 And you say, “’Whoever swears by the , it is nothing; but whoever swears by the lying on it is bound by the oath.’
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“You are blind! Why, which is greater?—the , or the which makes the ?
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- 20 He who swears by the swears both by it and by everything on it;
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he who swears by the Sanctuary swears both by it and by Him who dwells in it;
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and he who swears by Heaven swears both by the throne of and by Him who sits upon it.
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- 23 “Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay the on mint, dill, and cumin, while you have neglected the weightier requirements of the Law—just judgement, , and faithful dealing. These things you ought to have done, and yet you ought not to have left the others undone.
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You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp down the camel!
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“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.
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Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also.
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“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.
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- 28 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 Elohim’s Law.
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“Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you repair the sepulchres of the Prophets and keep in order the tombs of the righteous,
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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.’
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“So that you bear witness against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the Prophets.
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Fill up the measure of your forefathers’ guilt.
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- 33 O serpents, O vipers’ brood, how are you to escape condemnation to ?
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“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;
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Matthew 10:16-17 Matthew 13:52 Acts 13:1 Matthew 10:23 1 Corinthians 2:6 Acts 9:1-2 Acts 5:40 Acts 15:32 Acts 22:19-20 John 16:2 Acts 7:58-59 Ephesians 4:8-12 Luke 24:47 Acts 14:19 1 Corinthians 3:10 Hebrews 11:37 Colossians 1:28 Matthew 23:34-36 Acts 1:8 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Acts 11:27 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Proverbs 11:30 Luke 11:49-51 John 20:21 Acts 7:51-52 Revelation 11:10 2 Corinthians 11:24-25 Acts 12:2 1 Corinthians 12:3-11 Matthew 28:19-20 -
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that all the innocent shed upon earth may come on you, from the of righteous to the of the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the .
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I tell you in solemn that all these things will come upon the present generation.
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“O , ! 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!
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Deuteronomy 32:11-12 Ruth 2:12 Matthew 5:12 Psalm 63:7 Nehemiah 9:26 Jeremiah 6:16-17 Luke 13:34-35 Mark 12:3-6 Luke 14:17-20 Isaiah 50:2 Psalm 36:7 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Jeremiah 2:30 Matthew 22:6 Jeremiah 44:4 Psalm 91:4 Luke 15:28 Luke 19:14-44 Proverbs 1:24-31 Revelation 11:7-8 Hosea 11:7 Jeremiah 42:9-13 2 Chronicles 24:21-22 Revelation 17:6 Jeremiah 4:14 Acts 7:51-52 Psalm 57:1 Psalm 81:8-11 Hosea 11:2 Psalm 17:8 Jeremiah 11:7-8 Zechariah 1:4 Matthew 22:3 Jeremiah 6:8 Jeremiah 35:15 Matthew 21:35-36 Jeremiah 26:23 Luke 20:11-14 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Jeremiah 25:3-7 Matthew 23:30 - 38 See, your house will now be left to you desolate!
- 39 For I tell you that you will never see me again until you say, ‘Blessed be He who comes in the of the Lord.’”