Matthew 23:26

Matthew 23:1-36

¹Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, ²saying, “On Moses’ seat the scribes and the Pharisees have sat down. ³So everything that they tell you, do and keep; but do not do according to their works, for they say and do not do. ⁴And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. ⁵And they do all their works to be seen by people; for they make wide their phylacteries and make long the tassels, ⁶and they hold dear the place of honor at the dinners and the first seats in the synagogues, ⁷and the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people. ⁸But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. ⁹And do not call anyone on earth your father, for one is your Father, the heavenly one. ¹⁰Nor be called instructors, because your instructor is one, the Messiah. ¹¹But 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 in front of people; for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are going in to go in. ¹⁴Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows and for show make long prayers; for this you will receive a greater condemnation. ¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him a son of Gehenna twice as much as you. ¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound.’ ¹⁷Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold? ¹⁸And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it is bound.’ ¹⁹Blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰So the one who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it; ²¹and the one who swears by the sanctuary 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 tithe the mint and the dill and the cumin, and you have left aside the weightier things of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without leaving aside those. ²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but swallow the camel!

Mark 12:38-40

³⁸And in his teaching he was saying, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and to receive greetings in the marketplaces ³⁹and the first seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at the banquets, ⁴⁰who devour the houses of widows and as a pretext pray long prayers. These will receive the greater condemnation.”

Luke 20:45-47

⁴⁵And while all the people were listening, he said to the disciples, ⁴⁶“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and hold dear greetings in the marketplaces and the first seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets, ⁴⁷who devour the houses of widows and as a pretext pray long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

Luke 11:37-54

³⁷Now as he was speaking, a Pharisee asks him to dine with him; so he went in and reclined at table. ³⁸And the Pharisee, seeing this, was surprised that he did not first immerse himself before the meal. ³⁹But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰Fools! Did not the one who made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹But give as alms the things inside, and look, everything is clean for you. ⁴²But woe to you Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every garden herb, and you pass over justice and the love of God; but these you ought to have done, and not neglected those. ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the first seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴Woe to you, because you are like the unmarked tombs, and the people who walk over them do not know it.” ⁴⁵And one of the experts in the law answered and says to him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” ⁴⁶But he said, “Woe to you experts in the law also, because you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they on the one hand killed them, and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ ⁵⁰so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, ⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. ⁵²Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and those who were entering you hindered.” ⁵³And as he went out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him terribly and to make him speak about many things, ⁵⁴lying in wait for him to catch something from his mouth.