Matthew 23

About Matthew Matthew presents Jesus as the promised Messiah and King, with his teaching, miracles, death and resurrection.

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,SelectedMatthew 23:1Ask

Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:SelectedMatthew 23:2Ask

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.SelectedMatthew 23:3Ask

For 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.SelectedMatthew 23:4Ask

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,SelectedMatthew 23:5Ask

And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,SelectedMatthew 23:6Ask

And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.SelectedMatthew 23:7Ask

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.SelectedMatthew 23:8Ask

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.SelectedMatthew 23:9Ask

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.SelectedMatthew 23:10Ask

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.SelectedMatthew 23:11Ask

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.SelectedMatthew 23:12Ask

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.SelectedMatthew 23:13Ask

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.SelectedMatthew 23:14Ask

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.SelectedMatthew 23:15Ask

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!SelectedMatthew 23:16Ask

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?SelectedMatthew 23:17Ask

And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.SelectedMatthew 23:18Ask

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?SelectedMatthew 23:19Ask

Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.SelectedMatthew 23:20Ask

And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.SelectedMatthew 23:21Ask

And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.SelectedMatthew 23:22Ask

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.SelectedMatthew 23:23Ask

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.SelectedMatthew 23:24Ask

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.SelectedMatthew 23:25Ask

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.SelectedMatthew 23:26Ask

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.SelectedMatthew 23:27Ask

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.SelectedMatthew 23:28Ask

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,SelectedMatthew 23:29Ask

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.SelectedMatthew 23:30Ask

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.SelectedMatthew 23:31Ask

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.SelectedMatthew 23:32Ask

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?SelectedMatthew 23:33Ask

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:SelectedMatthew 23:34Ask

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.SelectedMatthew 23:35Ask

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.SelectedMatthew 23:36Ask

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!SelectedMatthew 23:37Ask

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.SelectedMatthew 23:38Ask

For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.SelectedMatthew 23:39Ask

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