मत्ती 23

1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.

3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.

4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.

6And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,

7And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.

8But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.

9And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

10Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.

11He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

13But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

14Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

15Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

16Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor.

17Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

18And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor.

19Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

20He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:

21And whosoever shall swear by temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it:

22And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

23Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone.

24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

25Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

26Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

27Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all filthiness.

28So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,

30And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

33You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

34Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

35That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

36Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

38Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.

39For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

1Tunc Jesus locutus est ad turbas, et ad discipulos suos,

2dicens: Super cathedram Moysi sederunt scribæ et pharisæi.

3Omnia ergo quæcumque dixerint vobis, servate, et facite: secundum opera vero eorum nolite facere: dicunt enim, et non faciunt.

4Alligant enim onera gravia, et importabilia, et imponunt in humeros hominum: digito autem suo nolunt ea movere.

5Omnia vero opera sua faciunt ut videantur ab hominibus: dilatant enim phylacteria sua, et magnificant fimbrias.

6Amant autem primos recubitus in cœnis, et primas cathedras in synagogis,

7et salutationes in foro, et vocari ab hominibus Rabbi.

8Vos autem nolite vocari Rabbi: unus est enim magister vester, omnes autem vos fratres estis.

9Et patrem nolite vocare vobis super terram: unus est enim pater vester qui in cælis est.

10Nec vocemini magistri: quia magister vester unus est, Christus.

11Qui major est vestrum, erit minister vester.

12Qui autem se exaltaverit, humiliabitur: et qui se humiliaverit, exaltabitur.

13Væ autem vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, quia clauditis regnum cælorum ante homines ! vos enim non intratis, nec introëuntes sinitis intrare.

14Væ vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, quia comeditis domos viduarum, orationes longas orantes ! propter hoc amplius accipietis judicium.

15Væ vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, quia circuitis mare, et aridam, ut faciatis unum proselytum, et cum fuerit factus, facitis eum filium gehennæ duplo quam vos.

16Væ vobis duces cæci, qui dicitis: Quicumque juraverit per templum, nihil est: qui autem juraverit in auro templi, debet.

17Stulti et cæci: quid enim majus est? aurum, an templum, quod sanctificat aurum?

18Et quicumque juraverit in altari, nihil est: quicumque autem juraverit in dono, quod est super illud, debet.

19Cæci: quid enim majus est, donum, an altare, quod sanctificat donum?

20Qui ergo jurat in altari, jurat in eo, et in omnibus quæ super illud sunt.

21Et quicumque juraverit in templo, jurat in illo, et in eo qui habitat in ipso:

22et qui jurat in cælo, jurat in throno Dei, et in eo qui sedet super eum.

23Væ vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, qui decimatis mentham, et anethum, et cyminum, et reliquistis quæ graviora sunt legis, judicium, et misericordiam, et fidem ! hæc oportuit facere, et illa non omittere.

24Duces cæci, excolantes culicem, camelum autem glutientes.

25Væ vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, quia mundatis quod deforis est calicis et paropsidis; intus autem pleni estis rapina et immunditia !

26Pharisæe cæce, munda prius quod intus est calicis, et paropsidis, ut fiat id, quod deforis est, mundum.

27Væ vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, quia similes estis sepulchris dealbatis, quæ a foris parent hominibus speciosa, intus vero pleni sunt ossibus mortuorum, et omni spurcitia !

28Sic et vos a foris quidem paretis hominibus justi: intus autem pleni estis hypocrisi et iniquitate.

29Væ vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, qui ædificatis sepulchra prophetarum, et ornatis monumenta justorum,

30et dicitis: Si fuissemus in diebus patrum nostrorum, non essemus socii eorum in sanguine prophetarum !

31itaque testimonio estis vobismetipsis, quia filii estis eorum, qui prophetas occiderunt.

32Et vos implete mensuram patrum vestrorum.

33Serpentes, genimina viperarum, quomodo fugietis a judicio gehennæ?

34Ideo ecce ego mitto ad vos prophetas, et sapientes, et scribas, et ex illis occidetis, et crucifigetis, et ex eis flagellabitis in synagogis vestris, et persequemini de civitate in civitatem:

35ut veniat super vos omnis sanguis justus, qui effusus est super terram, a sanguine Abel justi usque ad sanguinem Zachariæ, filii Barachiæ, quem occidistis inter templum et altare.

36Amen dico vobis, venient hæc omnia super generationem istam.

37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, quæ occidis prophetas, et lapidas eos, qui ad te missi sunt, quoties volui congregare filios tuos, quemadmodum gallina congregat pullos suos sub alas, et noluisti?

38Ecce relinquetur vobis domus vestra deserta.

39Dico enim vobis, non me videbitis amodo, donec dicatis: Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.

1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds, and to his disciples,

2saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in the chair of Moses.

3Therefore, all things whatsoever that they shall say to you, observe and do. Yet truly, do not choose to act according to their works. For they say, but they do not do.

4For they bind up heavy and unbearable burdens, and they impose them on men’s shoulders. But they are not willing to move them with even a finger of their own.

5Truly, they do all their works so that they may be seen by men. For they enlarge their phylacteries and glorify their hems.

6And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,

7and greetings in the marketplace, and to be called Master by men.

8But you must not be called Master. For One is your Master, and you are all brothers.

9And do not choose to call anyone on earth your father. For One is your Father, who is in heaven.

10Neither should you be called teachers. For One is your Teacher, the Christ.

11Whoever is greater among you shall be your minister.

12But whoever has exalted himself, shall be humbled. And whoever has humbled himself, shall be exalted.

13So then: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you close the kingdom of heaven before men. For you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering, you would not permit to enter.

14Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you consume the houses of widows, praying long prayers. Because of this, you shall receive the greater judgment.

15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and by land, in order to make one convert. And when he has been converted, you make him twice the son of Hell that you are yourselves.

16Woe to you, blind guides, who say: ‘Whoever will have sworn by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gold of the temple is obligated.’

17You are foolish and blind! For which is greater: the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

18And you say: ‘Whoever will have sworn by the altar, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gift that is on the altar is obligated.’

19How blind you are! For which is greater: the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

20Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it.

21And whoever will have sworn by the temple, swears by it, and by him who dwells in it.

22And whoever swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits upon it.

23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you collect tithes on mint and dill and cumin, but you have abandoned the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, while not omitting the others.

24You blind guides, straining out a gnat, while swallowing a camel!

25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you clean what is outside the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of avarice and impurity.

26You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, and then what is outside becomes clean.

27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.

28So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.

29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, who build the sepulchers of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just.

30And then you say, ‘If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in the blood of the prophets.’

31And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

32Complete, then, the measure of your fathers.

33You serpents, you brood of vipers! How will you escape from the judgment of Hell?

34For this reason, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men, and scribes. And some of these you will put to death and crucify; and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,

35so that upon you may fall all the blood of the just, which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

36Amen I say to you, all these things shall fall upon this generation.

37Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone those who have been sent to you. How often I have wanted to gather your children together, in the way that a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you were not willing!

38Behold, your house shall be abandoned to you, having been deserted.

39For I say to you, you shall not see me again, until you say: ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”