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Matthew 23

English Standard Version (ESV)

Seven Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees

23 Then Jesus B)’>“The scribes and the Pharisees D)’>but not the works they do. F)’>They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.  H)’>to be seen by others. For they make J)’>their fringes long, and they L)’>the best seats in the synagogues and N)’>the marketplaces and being called P)’>But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are R)’>And call no man your father on earth, for T)’>the Christ. 11  V)’>Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

13 “But woe X)’>shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you Z)’>proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a AB)’>hell as yourselves.
16 “Woe to AD)’>blind guides, who say, AF)’>the temple that has made the gold sacred? 18 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by AH)’>the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by AJ)’>heaven swears by AL)’>him who sits upon it.
23  AN)’>you tithe mint and dill and AP)’>justice and mercy and faithfulness. AR)’>a camel!
25  AT)’>you clean the outside of AV)’>greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of AX)’>“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like AZ)’>all uncleanness. 28 So you also BB)’>hypocrisy and lawlessness.

29  BD)’>sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32  BF)’>you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to BH)’>Therefore BJ)’>prophets and wise men and BL)’>some of whom you will kill and crucify, and BN)’>flog in your synagogues and BP)’>the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous BR)’>Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between BT)’>the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you,