¹³“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell^w as yourselves.

¹⁶“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If any one swears by the temple, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ ¹⁷You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? ¹⁸And you say, ‘If any one swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if any one swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ ¹⁹You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? ²⁰So he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it; ²¹and he who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it; ²²and he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.

²³“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. ²⁴You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

²⁵“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity. ²⁶You blind Pharisee! first cleanse the inside of the cup and of the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

²⁷“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. ²⁸So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

²⁹“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

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Footnotes

wGreek Gehenna 22:32: Ex 3:6. 22:33: Mt 7:28. 22:34–40: Mk 12:28–34; Lk 20:39–40; 10:25–28. 22:35: Lk 7:30; 11:45; 14:3. 22:37: Deut 6:5. 22:39: Lev 19:18; Mt 19:19; Gal 5:14; Rom 13:9; Jas 2:8. 22:41–46: Mk 12:35–37; Lk 20:41–44. 22:44: Ps 110:1; Acts 2:34–35; Heb 1:13; 10:13. 22:46: Mk 12:34; Lk 20:40. 23:4: Lk 11:46; Acts 15:10. 23:5: Mt 6:1, 5, 16; Ex 13:9; Deut 6:8; Mt 9:20. 23:6–7: Mk 12:38–39; Lk 20:46; 14:7–11; 11:43. 23:8: Jas 3:1. 23:11: Mt 20:26; Mk 9:35; 10:43; Lk 9:48; 22:26. 23:12: Lk 14:11; 18:14; Mt 18:4; 1 Pet 5:6. 23:13: Lk 11:52. 23:15: Acts 2:10; 6:5; 13:43. 23:16–22: Mt 5:33–37; 15:14. 23:17: Ex 30:29. 23:21: 1 Kings 8:13; Ps 26:8.