Codex Sinaiticus
23:1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2 saying: The scribes and Pharisees have sat down in Moses’ seat.
3 All things therefore whatever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works; for they say and do not.
4 And they bind heavy burdens and lay them on the shoulders of men; but themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 And all their works they do to be seen by men; for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge their fringes;
6 and they love the first reclining places at suppers and the first seats in the synagogues,
7 and the salutations in the markets, and to be called by men Rabbi.
8 But be you not called Rabbi; for one is your teacher, and you all are, brethren.
9 And call no one on earth your father; for one is your Father, the heavenly.
10 Neither be called leaders; for one is your leader, the Christ.
11 And the greatest of you shall be your minister.
12 For whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and who ever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers. For this reason you shall receive the greater condemnation.
15 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves.
16 Alas for you, blind guides, who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor.
17 Fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
18 And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gift that is on it, is a debtor.
19 Blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
20 Therefore, he that swears by the altar swears by it, and by all that is on it;
21 and he that swears by the temple swears by it, and by him that dwells in it;
22 and he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits upon it.
23 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, the justice, and the mercy, and the faithfulness: these ought you to have done, and those you ought not to have left undone.
24 Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but swallow the camel.
25 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but within they are full of rapine and incontinence.
26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of it the cup, that its outside also may become clean.
27 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you are like whitened sepulchers, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.
28 So also you outwardly indeed appear to men to be righteous, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,
30 and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 So then you testify for yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Do you also fill up the measure of your fathers?
33 Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: of them you will kill and crucify, and of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
35 that there may come on you all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say to you, all these things shall come on this generation.
37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that have been sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, and you refused.
38 Behold, your house is left to you deserted.
39 For I say to you, you shall no more see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
