¹ Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples,

² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sat upon the seat of Moses.

³ Therefore, all things, as many things as they would say for you° to keep, keep° and do

⁴ For$ they bind burdensome and unbearable loads, and place them upon the shoulders of men, but they are not willing to move them even with their finger.

⁵ And they are practicing all their works in-order-to be seen by men. And they widen their phylacteries and magnify the hems of their garments,

⁶ and they love the foremost-place in the suppers and the foremost seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called by men, Rabbi, rabbi.

⁸ But do° not be called rabbi; for$ only one is your° leader, the Christ, and you° are all brethren.

⁹ And do° not call anyone your° father upon the earth; for$ only one is your° Father, the one in the heavens;

¹⁰ nor be called leaders; for$ only one is your° leader: the Christ.

¹¹ But the greater of you° will be your° servant.

¹² But whoevers exalts himself, he will be humbled. And whoever humbles himself, he will be exalted by God. {Mat 23:13 & 23:14 are flipped in various Greek texts.}

¹³ But woe to you°, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you° are devouring the houses of the widows, {i.e., scam widows.} and praying long prayers for a pretext, because of this, you° will be receiving even-more condemnation.

¹⁴ Woe to you°, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you° lock the kingdom of the heavens before men; for$ you° are not entering in yourselves, nor are you° allowing the ones entering, to enter either.

¹⁵ Woe to you°, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you° proceed all around the sea and the dry land to make$ one Jewish-convert, and whenever he has become one, you° are making$ him double the son of hell as you° are.

¹⁶ Woe to you°, blind guides, the ones saying, Whoever should swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever should swear by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.

¹⁷ Foolish and blind! For$ what is greater, the gold, or the temple which makes the gold holy?

¹⁸ And, Whoever should swear by the altar, it is nothing, but whoever should swear by the gift which is upon it, he is obligated.

¹⁹ You° are foolish and blind; for$ what is greater, the gift, or the altar which makes the gift holy?

²⁰ Therefore, the one who swore by the altar, swears by it and by all things upon it.

²¹ And the one who swore by the temple, swears by it, and by the one who dwelt in it.

²² And the one who swore by the heaven, swears by the throne of God, and in the one who is sitting upon it.

²³ Woe to you°, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you° tithe the mint and the dill and the cumin, and yet you° left behind the weighty things of the law: the judgment and the mercy and the faith. It was essential for you° to practice these, and not to leave those undone.

²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

²⁵ Woe to you°, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you° cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate, but they are full from ravening and unrighteousness inside.

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the cup from within and the plate, in-order-that the outside of them might also become clean.

²⁷ Woe to you°, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you° are similar to whitewashed burial chambers, which on the outside indeed appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones, and full of all uncleanness.

²⁸ So on the outside you° indeed appear also righteous to men, but inside, you° are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

²⁹ Woe to you°, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you° build the burial chambers of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

³⁰ and say, If we were in the days of our fathers, we would have not been their partners in the blood of the prophets.

³¹ So-then you° are testifying to yourselves, You° are sons of the ones who murdered the prophets.

³² And you°, fill° up the measure of your° fathers.

³³ Serpents, offsprings of vipers! How may you° flee from the judgment of hell?

³⁴ Because of this, behold, I am sending to you° prophets and wise men and scribes, and you° will be killing and will be crucifying some out-of them, and you° will be scourging in your° synagogues and will be persecuting from city to city some out-of them,

³⁵ so $that upon you° should come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous {Gen 4:8} until the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you° murdered between the temple and the altar. {2Ch 24:21?}

³⁶ Assuredly I am saying to you°, All these things will be coming upon this generation.

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones the ones who have been sent to her! How-often I willed to gather together your children in the manner a bird gathers together her brood under her own wings, and you° did not will it!

³⁸ Behold, your° house is left to you° desolate;

³⁹ for$ I say to you°, You° should never see me from now on, until you° should say, The one coming in the name of the Lord has been blessed. {Psa 118:26} {It is best to always read Luke 21 first. See also: Luk 19:41-44 & Luk 23:28-31. Mat 24:1-26, 28 & Mar 13:1-23 & Luk 21:5-24 Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.}