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Read Matthew 23

World English Bible · 39 verses

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁰ and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³¹ Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³² Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³³ You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁶ Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁹ For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org