1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples.2saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down on the seat of Moses."3Therefore whatever they may say to you, do and keep, but do not do according to their works, for they say and do not do.4They bind heavy burdens and lay them on the shoulders of people, yet they themselves are unwilling to move them with their finger.5They perform all their works to be seen by people, for they widen their phylacteries and enlarge the fringes.6They love the place of honor at dinners and the seats of honor in the synagogues.7And the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called Rabbi by people.8But you are not to be called Rabbi, for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.9And do not call anyone your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, the heavenly one.10Nor are you to be called teachers, for one is your teacher, the Christ.11The greatest among you will be your servant.12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of the heavens before people; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to enter.14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows and, under a pretense, pray long; for this reason you will receive greater judgment.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 twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.16Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound.17You blind fools, for which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?18And, "Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gift that is upon it is bound."19You blind men, for which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?20Therefore whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.21And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.22And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by the one who sits upon it.23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you tithe mint and dill and cumin and have left the weightier matters of the law: the judgment and the mercy and the faith; these it was necessary to do, and not to leave those undone.24Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel.25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.26Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and the plate, so that the outside may also become clean.27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you resemble whitewashed graves, which outwardly appear beautiful but inside are full of bones of the dead and all uncleanness.28So you also outwardly appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the graves of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just.30and you say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been participants with them in the blood of the prophets.'31Thus you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.32Fill up then the measure of your fathers.33Serpents, offspring of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?34Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.35so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth may come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.36Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I desired to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.39For I say to you, you will not see me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.