^40 (A)who devour widows’ houses, and ^[a]for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

^47 (A)who devour widows’ houses, and for a ^(B)pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

³³ Serpents, ^(A)brood^[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

¹³ “But ^(A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

⁷ And when you pray, ^(A)do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. ^(B)For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

⁶ For ^(A)of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

⁴⁷ And ^(A)that servant who ^(B)knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. ^48 (C)But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

²² But I say to you, ^(A)it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. ²³ And you, Capernaum, ^(B)who^[a] are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. ²⁴ But I say to you ^(C)that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.”

Wicked Rulers and Prophets

3 And I said: