1Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law are experts in the Law of Moses.
3So obey everything they teach you, but don't do as they do. After all, they say one thing and do something else.
4They pile heavy burdens on people's shoulders and won't lift a finger to help.
5 for everyone to see.
6They love the best seats at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues.
7And when they are in the market, they like to have people greet them as their teachers.
8But none of you should be called a teacher. You have only one teacher, and all of you are like brothers and sisters.
9Don't call anyone on earth your father. All of you have the same Father in heaven.
10None of you should be called the leader. The Messiah is your only leader.
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15You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You travel over land and sea to win one follower. And when you have done so, you make that person twice as fit for hell as you are.
16You are in for trouble! You are supposed to lead others, but you are blind. You teach that it doesn't matter if a person swears by the temple. But you say it does matter if someone swears by the gold in the temple.
17You blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18You also teach that it doesn't matter if a person swears by the altar. But you say it does matter if someone swears by the gift on the altar.
19Are you blind? Which is more important, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20Anyone who swears by the altar also swears by everything on it.
21And anyone who swears by the temple also swears by God, who lives there.
22 On the outside they are beautiful, but inside they are full of bones and filth.
28That's what you are like. Outside you look good, but inside you are evil and only pretend to be good.
29You Pharisees and teachers are nothing but show-offs, and you're in for trouble! You build monuments for the prophets and decorate the tombs of good people.
30And you claim you would not have taken part with your ancestors in killing the prophets.
31But you prove you really are the relatives of the ones who killed the prophets.
32So keep on doing everything they did.
33 the man you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36I can promise that you people living today will be punished for all these things!
Jesus Loves Jerusalem(Luke 13.34,35)37Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Your people have killed the prophets and have stoned the messengers who were sent to you. I have often wanted to gather your people, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you wouldn't let me.
38Jr 22.5. And now your temple will be deserted.
39Ps 118.26. You won't see me again until you say,
“Blessed is the one who comes
in the name of the Lord.”
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