Dual Panel1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,
2saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses.
3Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as _they do_, for they tell [others to do something] and do not do [it themselves].
4And they tie up burdens [that are] heavy and hard to bear, and put [them] on people’s shoulders, but [they] themselves are not willing with their finger to move them.
5And they do all their deeds in order to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels long.
6And they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues
7and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people.
8But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ because one is your teacher, and you are all brothers,
9And do not call [anyone] your father on earth, for one is your heavenly Father.
10And do not be called teachers, because one is your teacher, the Christ.
11And the greatest among you will be your servant.
12And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter.
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15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you travel around the sea and the dry [land] to make one convert, and when he becomes [one], you make him twice as much a son of hell [as] you [are]!
16Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound [by his oath].’
17Fools and blind [people]! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy?
18And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gift [that is] on it is bound [by his oath].’
19Blind [people]! For which [is] greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?
20Therefore the one who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything [that is] on it.
21And the one who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells [in] it.
22And the one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by the one who sits on it.
23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important [matters] of the law—justice and mercy and faithfulness! But it was necessary to do these [things] _while not neglecting those_.
24Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel!
25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!
26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!
28In the [same] way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
30and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!’
31Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets!
32And you—fill up the measure of your fathers!
33Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?
34For this [reason], behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. [Some] of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town,
35so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36Truly I say to you, all these [things] will come upon this generation!
37"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together _the way_ a hen gathers her young together under [her] wings, and you were not willing!
38Behold, your house has been left to you desolate!
39For I tell you, you will never see me from now [on] until you say, ‘Blessed [is] the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’"