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Matthew 23:36  | 1747
23:15 f  Ac 2:11; 6:5;
13:43 g  Mt  5:22
23:16 h  ver  24;
Mt 15:14 i  Mt  5:33‑35
23:17 j  Ex  30:29
23:19 k  Ex  29:37
23:21 l  1Ki  8:13;
Ps 26:8
23:22 m  Ps  11:4;
Mt 5:34
23:23 n  Lev  27:30
o  Mic 6:8; Lk 11:42
23:24 p  ver  16
23:25 q  Mk  7:4
r  Lk  11:39
23:27 s  Lk  11:44;
Ac 23:3
23:29 t  Lk  11:47, ​48
23:31 u  Ac  7:51‑52
23:32 v  1Th  2:16
23:33 w  Mt 3:7; 12:34
x  Mt  5:22
23:34 y  2Ch  36:15, ​16;
z
Lk 11:49  Mt  10:17
a  Mt  10:23
23:35 b  Ge  4:8;
Heb 11:4 c  Zec  1:1
d  2Ch  24:21
23:36 e  Mt  10:23;
24:34
15 “Woe to you, teach­ers of the law and Phar­i­sees, you hyp­o­crites! You travel over land
and sea to win a sin­gle con­vert,  f and when you have suc­ceeded, you make them t ­ wice as
much a ­child of hell  g as you ­are.
16 “Woe to you, ­blind g
­ uides!  h You say, ‘If any­one s ­ wears by the tem­ple, it ­means noth­
ing; but any­one who ­swears by the gold of the tem­ple is ­bound by that oath.’  i 17  You ­blind
fools! ­Which is greater: the gold, or the tem­ple that ­makes the gold sa­cred?  j 18 You also say,
‘If any­one ­swears by the al­tar, it ­means noth­ing; but any­one who s ­ wears by the gift on the
al­tar is ­bound by that oath.’ 19 You ­blind men! ­Which is greater: the gift, or the al­tar that
makes the gift sa­cred?  k 20 There­fore, any­one who ­swears by the al­tar ­swears by it and by
ev­ery­thing on it. 21 And any­one who ­swears by the tem­ple ­swears by it and by the one who
dwells  l in it. 22 And any­one who s ­ wears by heaven s ­ wears by G
­ od’s ­throne and by the one
who sits on it.  m
23 “Woe to you, teach­ers of the law and Phar­i­sees, you hyp­o­crites! You give a t ­ enth  n of
your spices — ​mint, dill and cumin. But you have ne­glected the more im­por­tant mat­ters
of the law — ​jus­tice, mercy and faith­ful­ness.  o You s ­ hould have prac­ticed the lat­ter, with­out
ne­glect­ing the for­mer. 24  You ­blind ­guides!  p You ­strain out a gnat but swal­low a ­camel.
25 “Woe to you, teach­ers of the law and Phar­i­sees, you hyp­o­crites! You c ­ lean the out­side
of the cup and dish,  q but in­side they are full of ­greed and self-in­dul­gence.  r 26 Blind Phar­
i­see! F
­ irst ­clean the in­side of the cup and dish, and then the out­side also will be ­clean.
27 “Woe to you, teach­ers of the law and Phar­i­sees, you hyp­o­crites! You are like white­
washed ­tombs,  s ­which look beau­ti­ful on the out­side but on the in­side are full of the ­bones
of the dead and ev­ery­thing un­clean. 28 In the same way, on the out­side you ap­pear to peo­
ple as righ­teous but on the in­side you are full of hy­poc­risy and ­wick­ed­ness.
29 “Woe to you, teach­ers of the law and Phar­i­sees, you hyp­o­crites! You b
­ uild ­tombs for
the proph­ets  t and dec­o­rate the g
­ raves of the righ­teous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had l ­ ived
in the days of our an­ces­tors, we ­would not have taken part with them in shed­ding the
blood of the proph­ets.’ 31 So you tes­tify ­against your­selves that you are the de­scen­dants of
those who mur­dered the proph­ets.  u 32 Go ahead, then, and com­plete  v what your ­an­ces­tors
started!
33  “You ­snakes! You ­brood of vi­pers!  w How will you es­cape be­ing con­demned to hell?  x
34 There­fore I am send­ing you proph­ets and ­sages and teach­ers. Some of them you will
kill and cru­cify;  y oth­ers you will flog in your syn­a­gogues  z and pur­sue from town to town.  a
35 And so upon you will come all the righ­teous b
­ lood that has been shed on e
­ ar