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Woe To You Pharisees

³⁷ Now at the speaking, a Pharisee asks Him so that He might eat-the-morning-meal with him. And having gone in, He fell-back [to eat]. ³⁸ And the Pharisee, having seen it, marveled that He was not first cleansed^[a] before the morning-meal. ³⁹ But the Lord said to him, “Now^[b] you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter, but the inside of you is full of plundering and evilness. ⁴⁰ Foolish ones— did not the One having made the outside also make the inside? ⁴¹ But give the things being-within as alms, and behold— all things are clean for you. ⁴² But woe to you Pharisees, because you are giving-a-tenth-of the mint and the rue and every garden-plant, and are disregarding^[c] the justice and the love of God. But you ought-to-have done these things, and not be slackening^[d] those things. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the seat-of-honor in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴ Woe to you, because you are like unmarked^[e] graves, and the people walking over them do not know it ”.

Woe To You Law-Experts

⁴⁵ And having responded, one of the Law-experts says to Him, “Teacher, while saying these things You also are insulting us”. ⁴⁶ And the One said, “Woe to you Law-experts also, because you burden people with hard-to-bear burdens^[f], and you do not touch^[g] the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them! ⁴⁸ Therefore you are witnesses and are giving-approval to the works of your fathers, because they killed them— and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ For this reason the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send-forth prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and persecute, ⁵⁰ in order that the blood of all the prophets having been shed since the foundation of the world may be required^[h] from this generation— ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel up to the blood of Zechariah^[i], the one having perished between the altar and the house [of God]. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required from this generation’. ⁵² Woe to you Law-experts, because you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter, and you hindered the ones entering”.

With His Enemies Lying In Wait To Destroy Him, Myriads Gather To Hear Jesus

⁵³ And He having gone out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly^[j] hostile^[k], and to question^[l] Him concerning more things ⁵⁴ while lying-in-wait-for Him to catch something from His mouth— 12 ¹ in which circumstances, the myriads of the crowd having been gathered-together so that they were trampling one another:

Watch Out For The Leaven of The Pharisees, But Do Not Fear Them

He began to speak to His disciples first, “Take heed to yourselves because of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ² But nothing has been covered-up^[m] which will not be revealed, and is secret which will not be known. ³ Because whatever you said in the darkness will be heard in the light. And what you spoke to the ear in the inner-rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops. ⁴ And I say to you My friends, do not fear anything from^[n] the ones killing the body, and after these things not having anything more to do. ⁵ But I will show you Whom you should fear— fear the One having the authority to throw into Gehenna^[o] after the killing. Yes, I say to you, fear this One. ⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two assarion^[p]? And one of them has not been forgotten before God. ⁷ Yet even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Do not be fearing; you are more valuable than many sparrows.