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Matthew 23, Woe To False Pastors,
Woe to The Scribes and
Pharisees
The Book of Matthew, The Structure of The Book As A Whole
Matthew 23:1 Then
spake Jesus to
the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying, The
scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
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Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat
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Moses was the law giver
3 All
therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do;
but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
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Do not ye after their works: for they say, and
do not. =
scribes and the Pharisees
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and
lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move
them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works
they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their
phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in
the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be
called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called
Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are
brethren.
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Be not ye called Rabbi, for
one is your Father, which is in heaven
9 And call no man your father upon the earth:
for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
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Call no man your father upon the earth
10 Neither be
ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
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Neither be ye called
masters
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he
that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye
them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for
a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the
greater damnation.
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Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye compass sea and land to make one
proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the
child of hell than yourselves.
16 Woe unto you, ye blind
guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is
nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he
is a debtor!
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Ye fools and blind: for whether is
greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing;
but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is
guilty.
19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater,
the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
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Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by
all things thereon.
21 And whoso shall swear by the
temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne
of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
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Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and
anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the
law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done,
and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides,
which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the
platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within
the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye
are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all
uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and
iniquity.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and
garnish the sepulchres 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.
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Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that
ye are the
children of them which killed the prophets.
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Ye are the children of them which killed the
prophets.
32 Fill ye up
then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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Christ is speaking to the Pharisees.
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The word "generation" in the original
manuscripts was "off-spring", and it was changed
in the translation by the Kenites scribes!
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise
men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify;
and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and
persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the
righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous
Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew
between the temple and the altar.
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Who slew
Abel?
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Cain = Satan's seed line = The
Kenites
36 Verily I say unto
you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets,
and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold,
your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto
you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed
is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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