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Matthew 23

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1Then Yeshua [God is Salvation] spoke to the people and to his disciples
2saying: “Upon the seat of Moshe [drawn out] the Torah-teachers (Scribes) and P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] sit”.
3“Now all which he says to you keep and do; but according to their ordinances and deeds do not do, because they say and do not”.
4“They demand and set forth great burdens which the shoulders of men are not able to bear; but they themselves, even with their finger, are unwilling to move”.
5“All their actions they do for the sake of appearances; they wear expensive garments and large tassels”,
6“They love to recline first in the banquet halls, to be seated first at the synagogues”,
7“to prostrate themselves in the streets, and to be called Rabbi”.
8“But as for you, do not desire to be called Teacher because One is your Teacher, and all of you are brothers”.
9“Call no man upon the earth ‘father’ because One is your Father Who is in heaven”.
10“Do not be called Rabbi, because one is your Rabbi, Ha-Moshiach [Messiah] [The Messiah]”.
11“The greatest among you will serve you”.
12“He who exalts himself will be humbled; he who humbles himself will be exalted”.
13“Woe to you P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] and Torah-teachers (Scribes), hypocrites because you close up the Kingdom of heaven before men; you yourselves do not enter and those who wish to enter you do not permit to enter”.
14“Woe to you P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] and Torah-teachers (Scribes), hypocrites, because you devour and divide the wealth of certain widows with lengthy exposition; for this you will suffer (allow, to let, permit) a long punishment”.
15“You encompass sea and land to bind the heart of one man to your faith and when he is bound he is doubly worse than before”.
16“Woe to you council of the blind, who say that he who swears by the temple is not obligated, but he who vows by anything which is consecrated to the structure of the temple is not obligated to pay”,
17“-mad and blind men, which is greater, the temple or that which is consecrated to the temple?-”
18“and whoever swears by the altar is not obligated but he who swears that he will make an offering is obligated to give it”.
19“Woe blind men, which is more, the gift or the altar, the temple or the gift?”
20“He who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything which is in it”.
21“He who swears by the temple swears by the temple and He Who dwells within it”.
22“He who swears by the throne of Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God] swears by it and by The One Who sits upon it”.
23“Woe to them, Torah-teachers (Scribes) and P’rushim (Pharisee [separatist]s) [separatists], who tithe mint, dill and pomegranate, but who commit robbery and leave undone that which is weightier, that is, the judgments of the Torah which are: kindness, tand faithfulness. These are commands worthy of doing; one should not forget them”.
24“Offspring of blind leaders, who are strict in the matter of the gnat and swallow the camel”.
25“Woe to you P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] and Torah-teachers (Scribes), because you cleanse cups and platters on the outside but inside them is full of wickedness and uncleanness”.
26“Hypocrites, cleanse first that which is inside in order that that which is outside might be pure”.
27“Woe to you Torah-teachers (Scribes) and P’rushim (Pharisee [separatist]s) [separatists], hypocrites, who are like whitened sepulchers which appear on the outside to be beautiful to men, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and the filthy”.
28“Thus you appear on the outside to be righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness”.
29“Woe to you hypocrites, P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] and Torah-teachers (Scribes), because you build the tombs of the prophets and glorify the monuments of the righteous”.
30“You say: ‘If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have permitted putting the prophets to death’.
31“In this you bear witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets”.
32“You behave according to the deeds of your fathers”.
33“Serpents, seed of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gei-Hinnom [hell, valley of evil counsel] if you do not turn in repentance”.
34At that time Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to the crowds of the Jews: “Therefore, behold I am sending you prophets, wise men and Torah-teachers (Scribes). Some of them you will kill, some of them you will afflict in your synagogues and you will pursue them from city to city”.
35“In order to place upon you the blood of every righteous one which has been poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Z’kharyah Ben-Berekhyah [Yah remembers, son of Yah blesses] whom you killed between the temple and the altar”.
36“Truly I say to you that all these things will come upon this generation”,
37“and upon Yerushalayim [abode of peace] who kills the prophets and removes those who are sent. How many times I wished to gather your children as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings and you would not”.
38“Therefore you will leave your houses desolate”.
39“Truly, I say to you, you will not see me from now on, until you will say: ‘Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) is he who comes in the Name of Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]’”.

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