Matthew 23

1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,Cross-references: Matt 15:10 · Mark 7:14 · Mark 12:38 · Luke 12:1 · Luke 12:57 · Luke 20:45

2saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.Cross-references: Ezra 7:6 · Ezra 7:25 · Neh 8:4 · Mal 2:7 · Mark 12:38 · Luke 20:46

3All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.Cross-references: Ex 18:19 · Ex 18:23 · Deut 4:5 · Deut 5:27 · Deut 17:9 · 2Chr 30:12 · +8 more

4For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.Cross-references: Matt 11:28 · Matt 23:23 · Luke 11:46 · Acts 15:10 · Acts 15:28 · Gal 6:13 · +1 more

5But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,Cross-references: Ex 13:9 · Num 15:38 · Deut 6:8 · Deut 11:18 · Deut 22:12 · 2Ki 10:16 · +12 more

6and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,Cross-references: Prov 25:6 · Matt 20:21 · Mark 12:38 · Luke 11:43 · Luke 14:7 · Luke 20:46 · +3 more

7the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.Cross-references: Matt 23:8 · Mark 9:5 · Mark 10:51 · John 1:38 · John 1:49 · John 3:2 · +3 more

8But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.Cross-references: Matt 10:25 · Matt 17:5 · Matt 23:10 · Matt 26:49 · Luke 22:32 · John 13:13 · +12 more

9Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.Cross-references: 2Ki 2:12 · 2Ki 6:21 · 2Ki 13:14 · Job 32:21 · Mal 1:6 · Matt 6:8 · +9 more

10Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

11But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.Cross-references: Matt 20:26 · Mark 10:43 · Luke 22:26 · John 13:14 · 1Cor 9:19 · 2Cor 4:5 · +3 more

12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.Cross-references: Job 22:29 · Ps 138:6 · Prov 15:33 · Prov 16:18 · Prov 29:23 · Isa 57:15 · +8 more

13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.Cross-references: Isa 9:14 · Isa 33:14 · Zech 11:17 · Matt 21:31 · Matt 23:23 · Matt 23:25 · +16 more

14“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.Cross-references: Esth 8:17 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 5:29 · John 8:44 · Acts 2:10 · Acts 6:5 · +9 more

16“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’Cross-references: Isa 56:10 · Matt 5:33 · Matt 15:5 · Matt 15:14 · Matt 23:17 · Matt 23:19 · +6 more

17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?Cross-references: Ex 30:26 · Num 16:38 · Ps 94:8 · Matt 23:19

18And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.’

19You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?Cross-references: Ex 29:37 · Ex 30:29

20He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.

21He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:13 · 1Ki 8:27 · 2Chr 6:2 · 2Chr 7:2 · Ps 26:8 · Ps 132:13 · +2 more

22He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.Cross-references: Ps 11:4 · Isa 66:1 · Matt 5:34 · Acts 7:49 · Rev 4:2

23“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.Cross-references: Lev 27:30 · 1Sam 15:22 · Prov 21:3 · Jer 22:15 · Hos 6:6 · Mic 6:8 · +7 more

24You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!Cross-references: Matt 7:4 · Matt 15:2 · Matt 19:24 · Matt 23:16 · Matt 27:6 · Luke 6:7 · +2 more

25“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.Cross-references: Isa 28:7 · Matt 15:19 · Mark 7:4 · Luke 11:39

26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.Cross-references: Isa 55:7 · Jer 4:14 · Jer 13:27 · Ezek 18:31 · Matt 12:33 · Luke 6:45 · +3 more

27“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.Cross-references: Num 19:16 · Isa 58:1 · Luke 11:44 · Acts 23:3

28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · Ps 51:6 · Jer 17:9 · Matt 12:34 · Matt 15:19 · Matt 23:5 · +3 more

29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,Cross-references: Luke 11:47 · Acts 2:29

30and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’Cross-references: 2Chr 36:15 · Jer 2:30 · Matt 21:35 · Matt 23:34

31Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.Cross-references: Josh 24:22 · Job 15:5 · Ps 64:8 · Luke 19:22 · Acts 7:51 · 1Thess 2:15

32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · Num 32:14 · Zech 5:6 · 1Thess 2:16

33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 58:3 · Isa 57:3 · Matt 3:7 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 12:34 · +9 more

34Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,Cross-references: 2Chr 36:15 · Prov 11:30 · Matt 10:16 · Matt 10:23 · Matt 13:52 · Matt 28:19 · +24 more

35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.Cross-references: Gen 4:8 · Gen 9:5 · Num 35:33 · Deut 21:7 · 2Ki 21:16 · 2Ki 24:4 · +13 more

36Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.Cross-references: Ezek 12:21 · Matt 10:23 · Matt 24:34 · Mark 13:30 · Luke 21:32

37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!Cross-references: Deut 32:11 · Ruth 2:12 · 2Chr 24:21 · 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:26 · Ps 17:8 · +35 more

38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.Cross-references: 1Ki 9:7 · 2Chr 7:20 · Ps 69:24 · Isa 64:10 · Jer 7:9 · Jer 22:5 · +12 more

39For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”Cross-references: Ps 118:26 · Isa 40:9 · Hos 3:4 · Zech 12:10 · Matt 21:9 · Luke 2:26 · +9 more