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¹Then Yeshua Salvation spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

²saying, “The Torah-Teachers and the Pharisees Separated sat on Moses Drawn out’ seat.

³All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

⁴For 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.

⁵But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the tzitziyot ·tassles· of their garments,

⁶and phileo ·affectionately love, have high regard for· the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

⁷the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi ·Teacher·' by men.

⁸But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi ·Teacher·,’ for one is your teacher, the Messiah Anointed one, and all of you are brothers.

⁹Call no man on the earth 'Avikah ·your Father·, for one is 'Avikah ·your Father·, he who is in heaven.

¹⁰Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Messiah Anointed one.

¹¹But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

¹²Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

¹³“Woe to you, Torah-Teachers and Pharisees Separated, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

¹⁴“But woe to you, Torah-Teachers and Pharisees Separated, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven (God) against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

¹⁵Woe to you, Torah-Teachers and Pharisees Separated, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one convert; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna (Place of fiery torment for the dead) as yourselves.

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.’

¹⁷You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

¹⁸‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

¹⁹You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

²⁰He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

²¹He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

²²He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

²³“Woe to you, Torah-Teachers and Pharisees Separated, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the Torah ·Teaching·: justice, eleos ·merciful compassion in action·, and faithfulness. These are the things you should have attended to, without neglecting the others!

²⁴You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

²⁵“Woe to you, Torah-Teachers and Pharisees Separated, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

²⁶You blind Pharisee Separated, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

²⁷“Woe to you, Torah-Teachers and Pharisees Separated, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

²⁸Even so you also outwardly appear upright to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah ·Teaching·.

²⁹“Woe to you, Torah-Teachers and Pharisees Separated, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the upright,

³⁰and 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.’

³¹Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

³²Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

³³You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna (Place of fiery torment for the dead)?

³⁴Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and Torah-Teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

³⁵that on you may come all the upright blood shed on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel Vanity, Mourning to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

³⁶Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

³⁷“Jerusalem City of peace, Jerusalem City of peace, 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!

³⁸Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

³⁹For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of MarYah Master Yahweh!’”