|¹⁴ ·How terrible for [^LWoe to] you, ·teachers of the law [scribes] and Pharisees. You are hypocrites. You ·take away [^Ldevour] widows’ houses, and you say long prayers ·so that people will notice you [as a pretense]. So you will have a worse ·punishment [condemnation].|^[a]

¹⁵ “·How terrible for [^LWoe to] you, ·teachers of the law [scribes] and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You travel across land and sea to ·find one person who will change to your ways [^Lmake one convert/proseltye]. When you ·find that person [make that convert], you make him ·more fit for hell than [^Ltwice the son of hell/Gehenna that; 5:22] you are.

¹⁶ “·How terrible for [^LWoe to] you! ·You guide the people, but you are blind [^LBlind guides!]. You say, ‘If people ·swear [make an oath/vow] by the Temple when they make a promise, that means nothing. But if they swear by the gold that is in the Temple, they ·must keep that promise [are obligated/bound].’