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28 And He said, “No rather, blessed are those hearing the word of God and keeping it.”
29 And of the crowds being pressed around together, He began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah.
30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, thus also the Son of Man will be to this generation.
31 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, greater than Solomon is here.
32 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, greater than Jonah is here.
33 But no one having lit a lamp, sets it in secret, nor under the basket, but upon the lampstand, that those entering in may see the light.
34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is clear, your whole body is also light; but when it is evil, your body is also dark.
35 Therefore take heed, lest the light that is in you be darkness.
36 If therefore your body is full of light, not having any part dark, it will be all light, as when the lamp shining might light you.”
37 And as He was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him that He would dine with him. And having entered, He reclined.
38 And the Pharisee, having seen, marveled that He did not wash first before the dinner.
39 And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees, you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of plundering and wickedness.
40 Fools! Did not the One having made the outside make the inside also?
41 But give as alms the things being within, and behold, all things are clean to you.
42 But woe to you Pharisees, for you pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb; and you pass by justice and the love of God. But it behooved you to do these things, and those not to neglect.
43 Woe to you Pharisees, for you love the first seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
44 Woe to you, for you are like unmarked graves, and the men walking above have not known it.”
45 And one of the lawyers answering, says to Him, “Teacher, saying these things You insult us also.”
46 And He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you burden men with burdens heavy to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe to you, for you build the tombs of the prophets, yet your fathers killed them.
48 So you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers; for indeed they killed them, and you build their tombs.
49 Because of this also, the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’
50 so that the blood of all the prophets having been poured out from the foundation of the world might be charged against this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the one having perished between the altar and the house. Yes, I say to you, it will be required of this generation.
52 Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who are entering.”
53 Of Him having gone forth from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began urgently to press upon Him and to make Him speak about many things,
54 watching to catch Him in something out of his mouth.