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“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you
Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one
convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell
you yourselves are!
Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means
nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear
‘by the gold in the Temple.’
Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that
makes the gold sacred?
And you say that to swear ‘by the altar’ is not binding,
but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding.
How blind! For which is more important
—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by
everything on it.
And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by
God, who lives in it.
And when you swear ‘by heaven,’ you are swearing by the throne
of God and by God, who sits on the throne.
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you
Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest
income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important
aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes,
but do not neglect the more important things.
Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally
swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you
Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of
the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and
self-indulgence!
You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish,
and then the outside will become clean, too.
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you
Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—
beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s
bones and all sorts of impurity.
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