Matthew 23:13-36

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Woe To You, Scribes And Pharisees. You Are Blind Guides. How Will You Escape Hell?

¹³ “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are shutting the kingdom of the heavens in-front-of ^[a] people. For you are not entering, nor are you permitting the ones entering to enter. ^{14 [b] 15} Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go-around the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte. And when he becomes one, you make him a son of Gehenna^[c] double-more than you. ¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides— the ones saying, ‘Whoever swears-an-oath by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever swears-an-oath by the gold of the temple, he is obligated’. ¹⁷ Foolish and blind ones! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple having sanctified^[d] the gold? ¹⁸ And, ‘Whoever swears-an-oath by the altar, it is nothing. But whoever swears-an-oath by the gift^[e] on it, he is obligated’. ¹⁹ Blind ones! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar sanctifying the gift? ²⁰ Therefore, the one having sworn by the altar is swearing by it and by all the things on it. ²¹ And the one having sworn by the temple is swearing by it and by the One dwelling-in^[f] it. ²² And the one having sworn by heaven is swearing by the throne of God and by the One sitting on it. ²³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are giving-a-tenth-of the mint and the dill and the cummin, and you neglected^[g] the weightier things of the Law— the justice, and the mercy, and the faithfulness^[h]. But you ought-to-have done these things, and not be neglecting those things. ²⁴ Blind guides— the ones straining-out^[i] the gnat, but swallowing^[j] the camel! ²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full from^[k] [your] plundering and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee— first cleanse the inside of the cup, in order that the outside of it may also become clean! ²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are similar to burial-places having been whitewashed^[l], which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of bones of dead ones and all impurity! ²⁸ So also you outside appear righteous to people— but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness! ²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the burial-places of the prophets and adorn^[m] the tombs of the righteous ones, ³⁰ and say, ‘If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their partners in the blood of the prophets’. ³¹ So then, you are testifying concerning yourselves that you are sons^[n] of the ones having murdered the prophets. ³² And you— fill-up^[o] the measure of your fathers! ³³ Snakes, brood of vipers, how may you escape from the condemnation of ^[p] Gehenna?

God Will Avenge The Blood of All The Righteous On You. Your House Is Left Desolate

³⁴ “For this reason behold, I am sending-forth prophets and wise ones and scribes^[q] to you— some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will whip in your synagogues and persecute from city to city— ³⁵ so that all the righteous blood being shed on the earth^[r] may come upon you^[s]: from the blood of Abel^[t] the righteous one, up to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.