Jesus condemned the scribes and Pharisees

THEN JESUS said to the multitudes and to His disciples,

The scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses' seat [of authority].

So observe and practice all they tell you; but do not do what they do, for they preach, but do not practice.

They tie up heavy loads, hard to bear, and place them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to help bear them.

They do all their works to be seen of men; for they make wide their phylacteries ( small cases enclosing certain Scripture passages, worn during prayer on the left arm and forehead) and make long their fringes [worn by all male Israelites, according to the command].

And they take pleasure in and [thus] love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,

And to be greeted with honor in the marketplaces and to have people call them rabbi.

But you are not to be called rabbi (teacher), for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.

And do not call anyone [in the church] on earth father, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven.

And you must not be called masters (leaders), for you have one Master (Leader), the Christ.

He who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

Whoever exalts himself [ with haughtiness and empty pride] shall be humbled (brought low), and whoever humbles himself [whoever has a modest opinion of himself and behaves accordingly] shall be raised to honor.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows' houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes one [a proselyte], you make him doubly as much a child of hell (Gehenna) as you are.

Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the sanctuary of the temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, he is a debtor [bound by his oath].

You blind fools! For which is greater: the gold, or the sanctuary of the temple that has made the gold sacred?

You say too, Whoever swears by the altar is not duty bound; but whoever swears by the offering on the altar, his oath is binding.

You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift sacred?

So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

And he who swears by the sanctuary of the temple swears by it and by Him Who dwells in it. [I Kings 8:13; Ps. 26:8.]

And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits upon it.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you give a tenth of your mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected and omitted the weightier (more important) matters of the Law--right and justice and mercy and fidelity. These you ought [particularly] to have done, without neglecting the others.

You blind guides, filtering out a gnat and gulping down a camel!

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence.

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may be clean also.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure.

Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

Saying, If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have aided them in shedding the blood of the prophets.

Thus you are testifying against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' sins to the brim [so that nothing may be wanting to a full measure].

You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)?

Because of this, take notice: I am sending you prophets and wise men (interpreters and teachers) and scribes (men learned in the Mosaic Law and the Prophets); some of them you will kill, even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue and persecute from town to town,

So that upon your heads may come all the blood of the righteous ( those who correspond to the divine standard of right) shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar [of burnt offering].

Truly I declare to you, all these [ evil, calamitous times] will come upon this generation. [II Chron. 36:15, 16.]

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a mother fowl gathers her brood under her wings, and you refused!

Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate (abandoned and left destitute of God's help). [I Kings 9:7; Jer. 22:5.]

For I declare to you, you will not see Me again until you say, Blessed (magnified in worship, adored, and exalted) is He Who comes in the name of the Lord!

The relationship between Jesus and David

While the Pharisees still gathered there, Jesus asked them

What do you think of the Christ? Whose Son is He? They said to Him, The Son of David.

He said to them, How is it then that David, under the influence of the [Holy] Spirit, calls Him Lord, saying,The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet?

If then David thus calls Him Lord, how is He his Son?

No one can answer Jesus. And ever since that day, no one dared ask anything more to Him.

Jesus answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind

When the Pharisees heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they come together.

One of them, a religious teacher, tried to trap Jesus with a question.

he said, "Which commandment in the law of most major religions?"

Jesus answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect).

This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.

The second command is the same as the first it: Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

All religious laws given by Moses and the teachings of the prophets, based On these two commandments. "

They are asked jesus a question about the dead will not rise again

some Sadducees came to Jesus. They are asked jesus a question about the dead will not rise again.

Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married and died, and, having no children, left his wife to his brother.

The second also died childless, and the third, down to the seventh.

Last of all, the woman died also.

Who among the seven brother who became her husband on the day of resurrection? Because they all had married her. "

Jesus replied, "You're wrong once, because you do not understand the Bible, nor the power of God.

For when the dead will rise again, they will not marry again, but they will live like angels in heaven.

But as to the resurrection of the dead--have you never read what was said to you by God,I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!

And when the throng heard it, they were astonished and filled with [ glad] amazement at His teaching.

Jesus said to them: "Give to Caesar what you must give to Caesar and give to God what you must give to God."

Then Pharisees negotiate how they could trap Jesus with a question.

They sent their disciples together people Herodians asked jesus: "Teacher, we know that you are an honest and truly teach the way of Allah and do not care about anyone else.

Tell us your opinion: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? "

But Jesus knew their hearts were evil and said: "Hi, hypocrites! Why do you want to trap me?

show me the money that you use to pay taxes! "Then they gave him a silver coin.And Jesus said to them, Whose likeness and title are these?

They answered, "Caesar's." Then Jesus said to them: "Give to Caesar what you must give to Caesar and give to God what you must give to God."

When they heard this, they were surprised. So they left him.

Jesus said, many are called , but few are chosen.

AND AGAIN Jesus spoke to them in parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), saying,

The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son

And sent his servants to summon those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they refused to come.

Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my banquet; my bullocks and my fat calves are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast.

But they were not concerned and paid no attention [they ignored and made light of the summons, treating it with contempt] and they went away--one to his farm, another to his business,

While the others seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and put them to death.

[Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soldiers and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

Then he said to his servants, The wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy.

So go to the thoroughfares where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.

And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.

But when the king came in to view the guests, he looked intently at a man there who had on no wedding garment.

And he said, Friend, how did you come in here without putting on the [appropriate] wedding garment? And he was speechless ( muzzled, gagged).

Then the king said to the attendants, Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the darkness outside; there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

For many are called (invited and summoned), but few are chosen.

Jesus said, for this reason the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce the fruits of it.

Listen to another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a wine vat in it and built a watchtower. Then he let it out [for rent] to tenants and went into another country.

When the fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his [share of the] fruit.

But the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Again he sent other servants, more than the first time, and they treated them the same way.

Finally he sent his own son to them, saying, They will respect and give heed to my son.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, This is the heir; come on, let us kill him and have his inheritance.

And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Now when the owner of the vineyard comes back, what will he do to those tenants?

They said to Him, He will put those wretches to a miserable death and rent the vineyard to other tenants of such a character that they will give him the fruits promptly in their season.

Jesus asked them, Have you never read in the Scriptures: The very Stone which the builders rejected and threw away has become the Cornerstone; this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

I tell you, for this reason the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce the fruits of it.

And whoever falls on this Stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom It falls will be crushed to powder [and It will winnow him, scattering him like dust].

And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), they perceived that He was talking about them.

And although they were trying to arrest Him, they feared the throngs because they regarded Him as a prophet.