\subsection{Matthew 23}
\subsubsection{Seven Woes}
\VS{1} Then \Iesous spoke to the crowds and to his disciples 
\VS{2} saying: Upon the seat of \Moses the scribes and Pharisees sit. 
\VS{3} All therefore that they say to you, do and keep, but do not 
be doing according to their deeds, for they say and do not do. 
\VS{4} They bind heavy burdens and place them on the 
shoulders of men, but they will not move them with their finger. 
\VS{5} But all their works they do to be seen by men, for the enlarge their 
phylacteries and lengthen their hems, 
\VS{6} And they philia-love the place 
of honor in banquets and the first seats in the synagogues 
\VS{7} and the salutations in the synagogues and to be called by men Rabbi. 
\VS{8} But do not be called Rabbi\footnote{means ``Teacher"'. Compare \myxref{1Tim}{2}{7}, \myxref{2Tim}{1}{11}.}, for one is your teacher, and all [of] you are brothers. 
\VS{9} And do not call [anyone] your father on the earth, for one is your father in the heavens\footnote{ ``your father in the heavens'' \koine{}D most; ``your heavenly father'' few}. 
\VS{10} neither be called leaders\footnote{or 'guides'}, for your leader\footnote{or 'guide'} is one, the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One]. 
\VS{11} But the greater of you will be your servant. 
\VS{12} But whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall 
be exalted. 

\VS{13} But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for 
you shut the kingdom of the heavens before men. For you yourselves do not 
enter, neither do you permit the entering to enter.
\VS{14} \footnote{include vs. 14: W\koine{} few; omit vs. 14: \sinaiticus{}BD\hesychian{} } Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you devour widow's houses and in 
pretense make long prayers. Because of this you will receive greater 
judgment. 
\VS{15} Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you 
travel about sea and land to make one proselyte, and whenever he is made, 
you make him twice the son of Gehenna\fnGehenna{} you [are]. 

\VS{16} Woe to you, blind guides 
who say: Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever swears by 
the gold in the temple, he transgresses\footnote{or ``is a debtor''}. 
\VS{17} Stupid and blind-men, for which is greater, the gold or the temple which 
made the gold holy? 
\VS{18} And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing, 
but whoever swears by the gift upon it, he transgresses\footnote{or ``is a debtor"}. 
\VS{19} Stupid and\footnote{``Stupid and'' BW\koine{} most; omit: \sinaiticus{}D } 
blind, for which is greater, the gift or the altar making the gift holy? 
\VS{20} Therefore the [one] who swore by the altar swears by it and by all upon 
it, 
\VS{21} and the [one] who swore by the temple swears by it and by 
what\footnote{or ``whom''} inhabits it, 
\VS{22} and the [one] who swore by heaven 
swears by the throne of God and the [one] sitting on it. 

\VS{23} Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, 
for you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and omit the weightier 
[things] of the Law: judgement and mercy and faith. These you 
ought to do and not leave the others undone. 
\VS{24} Blind guides, straining 
out [a] gnat, but swallowing [a] camel. 

\VS{25} Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, 
hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but within 
they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 
\VS{26} Blind Pharisees, first 
clean the inside of the cup that the outside also may become clean. 

\VS{27} Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like 
white-washed graves that outside appear lovely, but inside are full of 
bones and every uncleanness. 
\VS{28} Thus you also outside seem just to men, 
but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 

\VS{29} Woe to you, 
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you build the tombs of the prophets 
and adorn the graves of the just, 
\VS{30} and you say: If we were in the days 
of our fathers, we would not have been their partners in the blood of the 
prophets. 
\VS{31} Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of 
those having murdered the prophets. 
\VS{32} Fill up then the measure of your fathers. 
\VS{33} Serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the 
judgment of Gehenna\fnGehenna{}? 
\VS{34} For this reason behold I send to you prophets 
and wise and scribes. Some you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog 
in you synagogues and persecute from city to city, 

\VS{35} in order that all 
the just blood come upon you poured upon the land from the blood of just 
Abel until Zacharaiah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple 
and the altar. 
\VS{36} Truly I say to you, he will bring all these [things] upon 
this generation.

\subsubsection{Judgment on Israel}
\VS{37} Jerusalem Jerusalem, who killed the prophets and stoned those sent 
to you, how often I would gather your children, just as [a] bird gathers her 
chicks under her wings, and you would not. 
\VS{38} Behold your house is 
abandoned to you desolate. 
\VS{39} For I say to you, you will \negd{not} see me from now until you will say\footnote{Ps.118:26}:

\begin{verse}
Blessed is the [one] coming in the name of the Lord.
\end{verse}
