Matthew 23 Bishops' Bible 1568

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Mat 23:1 Then spake Iesus to the multitudes, and to his disciples, Mat 23:2 Saying: The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moyses seate. Mat 23:3 All therfore, whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and do: but do not ye after their workes, for they say, and do not. Mat 23:4 Yea, they bynde together heauy burthens, and greeuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders: but they them selues wyll not moue them with [one] of their fingers. Mat 23:5 All their workes they do, for to be sene of men: They make broade their philacteries, and enlarge the hemmes of their garmentes. Mat 23:6 And loue the vppermost seates at feastes, and to syt in the chiefe place in councels, Mat 23:7 And greetynges in the markettes, and to be called of men, Rabbi. Mat 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: For one is your maister, [euen] Christe, and all ye are brethren. Mat 23:9 And call [no man] your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen. Mat 23:10 Neither be ye called maisters: for one is your maister [euen] Christe. Mat 23:11 He that is greatest among you, shalbe your seruaunt. Mat 23:12 But whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted. Mat 23:13 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in. Mat 23:14 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widdowes houses, and that vnder a pretence of long prayer: therfore ye shall receaue the greater dampnation. Mat 23:15 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye compasse sea and lande, to make one proselite: & when he is become one, ye make hym two folde more the chylde of hell, then ye your selues [are]. Mat 23:16 Wo be vnto you ye blynde guides: for ye say, whosoeuer doth sweare by the temple, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the temple, he is a detter. Mat 23:17 Ye fooles and blynde. For whether is greater, the golde, or the temple that sanctifieth the golde? Mat 23:18 And whosoeuer sweareth by the aulter, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the gyft that is vpon it, he is a detter. Mat 23:19 Ye fooles and blynde, for whether is greater, the gyft: or the aulter that sanctifieth the gyft? Mat 23:20 Who so therfore sweareth by the aulter, sweareth by it, and by all thynges theron. Mat 23:21 And who so sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by hym that dwelleth therin. Mat 23:22 And he that sweareth by heauen, sweareth by the seate of God, and by hym that sitteth theron. Mat 23:23 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye tythe mynt, and annise, and cummyn: and haue left the wayghtier matters of the lawe, iudgement, mercy, and fayth. These ought ye to haue done, and not to leaue the other vndone. Mat 23:24 Ye blynde guides, which strayne out a gnat, and swalowe a Camel. Mat 23:25 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter syde of the cup, & of the platter: but within they are full of brybery & excesse. Mat 23:26 Thou blynde Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outsyde of them may be cleane also. Mat 23:27 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: for ye are lyke vnto paynted sepulchres, which in dede appeare beautifull outwarde, but are within full of dead [mens] bones, and of all fylthynes. Mat 23:28 Euen so, ye also, outwardly appeare ryghteous vnto men: But within, ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie. Mat 23:29 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: ye builde the tombes of the Prophetes, and garnishe the sepulchres of the ryghteous: Mat 23:30 And say, yf we had ben in the dayes of our fathers, we woulde not haue ben parteners with them in the blood of the prophetes. Mat 23:31 And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes. Mat 23:32 Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers. Mat 23:33 Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell? Mat 23:34 Wherfore, beholde I sende vnto you prophetes, and wyse men, and Scribes, and [some] of them ye shall kyll and crucifie: and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from citie to citie. Mat 23:35 That vpon you may come all the ryghteous blood, which hath ben shed vpon the earth, from the blood of ryghteous Abel, vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias, whom ye slewe betwene the temple & the aulter. Mat 23:36 Ueryly I say vnto you: all these thynges shal come vpon this generatio. Mat 23:37 O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, thou that kyllest the prophetes, and stonest them which are sent vnto thee: Howe often woulde I haue gathered thy chyldren together, euen as the henne gathereth her chickens vnder her wynges, and ye woulde not? Mat 23:38 Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate. Mat 23:39 For I say vnto you: ye shall not see me hencefoorth, tyll that ye say, blessed [is he] that commeth in the name of the Lorde.