Religious Hypocrites Denounced

23 Then(A) Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:(B) “The scribes and the Pharisees are seated in the chair of Moses.[a](C) Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do,[b] because they don’t practice what they teach.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:2 Perhaps a special chair for teaching in synagogues, or a metaphorical phrase for teaching with Moses’ authority
  2. Matthew 23:3 Lit do according to their works

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