Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.
Woe
to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and
land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold
more the child of hell than yourselves.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought you have done, and not to leave the other undone. You blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like to whited sepulcher, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of dead bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you built the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, 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. Wherefore you bear witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets. And fill up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?
Wherefore, behold, I have sent to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and of others of them you shall kill and crucify; and of them shall you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say to you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that have killed the prophets, and stoned them which are sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell to you, You shall not see Me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.(parallel passages Mark 12:38-40, Luke 11:37-52; 20:45-47, 13:34-35)
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