(APB) Matthew 23 : 1 Then Yeshua spoke with the crowds and with his disciples:
(APB) Matthew 23 : 2 And he said to them:”The Scribes and the Pharisees have sat on the throne of Moses.”
(APB) Matthew 23 : 3 Everything therefore that they will tell you to observe, observe and do, but you should not do according to their works, for they are saying, and they are not doing.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 4 And they bind heavy burdens and place them on the shoulders of men, but they are not willing to touch them with their fingers.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 5 And they do all their works to be seen by the children of men, for they enlarge their phylacteries and they extend the blue fringes of their robes.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 6 And they love the first class places at feasts and first class seats in the synagogues
(APB) Matthew 23 : 7 And greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called, "Rabbi”, by the people.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 8 But you shall not be called "Rabbi”, for One is your Rabbi, but you are all brothers.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 9 And you should not call yourselves "Father”, in the earth, for one is your Father who is in Heaven.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 10 And you will not be called Leaders, because one is your Leader, The Messiah.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 11 But he who is great among you will be a servant to you.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 12 Whoever will exalt himself will be humbled and whoever will humble himself will be exalted.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 13 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, pretenders, who consume the houses of widows with offerings for your making of long prayers! Because of this you will receive greater judgment.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 14 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, pretenders, for you shut the Kingdom of Heaven before the children of men, for you are not entering, and those who are entering you do not permit to enter!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 15 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, phonies! For you travel around sea and land to make one convert, and when it has happened, you make him doubly the son of Gehenna that you are!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 16 Woe to you blind guides, for you say, 'Whoever swears by The Temple, it is nothing', but 'Whoever swears by the gold of The Temple is liable!'
(APB) Matthew 23 : 17 Fools and blind men! Which is greater, gold, or The Temple, which sanctifies the gold?
(APB) Matthew 23 : 18 And,'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing',but 'Whoever swears by the offering upon it, he is liable.'
(APB) Matthew 23 : 19 Fools and blind men! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
(APB) Matthew 23 : 20 Whoever swears therefore by the altar swears by it and by everything that is upon it.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 21 And whoever swears by The Temple swears by it and by The One dwelling in it.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 22 And whoever swears by Heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 23 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, imposters! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin and you forsake the weighty things of the law: Justice, mercy and faith! It is necessary for you to do these things and you should not forsake them.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 24 Blind guides who strain out gnats and swallow camels!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 25 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, pretenders, who wash the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within are full of plunder and evil!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 26 Blind Pharisees, wash first the inside of the cup and dish that their outside may also be clean.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 27 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, pretenders, who are like white tombs, which from the outside appear lovely, but from within are full of the bones of the dead and all corruption!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 28 So also you from the outside appear to the children of men as righteous, and from within are filled with evil and hypocrisy.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 29 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, phonies, who build the tombs of The Prophets and adorn the tombs of the righteous!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 30 And you say, 'If we had been in the days of our forefathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of The Prophets.'
(APB) Matthew 23 : 31 Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered The Prophets.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 32 So fulfill the standard of your forefathers.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 33 Snakes! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the judgment of Gehenna?
(APB) Matthew 23 : 34 Because of this behold, I am sending to you Prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will murder and you will crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and you will persecute them from city to city
(APB) Matthew 23 : 35 So that all the blood of the righteous may come upon you that has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, even unto the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the midst of The Temple and the altar.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 36 Amen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
(APB) Matthew 23 : 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that murdered The Prophets and stoned those who were sent to it! How many times have I desired to gather your children, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate!
(APB) Matthew 23 : 39 For I say to you that you will not see me from now on, until you will say, 'Blessed is he who has come in the name of THE LORD JEHOVAH.'”