Matthew 23 Then spake Iesus to the multitudes, and to his disciples

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then spake Iesus to the multitudes, and to his disciples ² Saying: The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moyses seate 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 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 ⁵ All their workes they do, for to be sene of men: They make broade their philacteries, and enlarge the hemmes of their garmentes ⁶ And loue the vppermost seates at feastes, and to syt in the chiefe place in councels ⁷ And greetynges in the markettes, and to be called of men, Rabbi ⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi: For one is your maister, [euen] Christe, and all ye are brethren ⁹ And call [no man] your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen ¹⁰ Neither be ye called maisters: for one is your maister [euen] Christe ¹¹ He that is greatest among you, shalbe your seruaunt ¹² But whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted 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 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 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] 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 ¹⁷ Ye fooles and blynde. For whether is greater, the golde, or the temple that sanctifieth the golde ¹⁸ And whosoeuer sweareth by the aulter, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the gyft that is vpon it, he is a detter ¹⁹ Ye fooles and blynde, for whether is greater, the gyft: or the aulter that sanctifieth the gyft ²⁰ Who so therfore sweareth by the aulter, sweareth by it, and by all thynges theron ²¹ And who so sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by hym that dwelleth therin ²² And he that sweareth by heauen, sweareth by the seate of God, and by hym that sitteth theron 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 ²⁴ Ye blynde guides, which strayne out a gnat, and swalowe a Camel 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 ²⁶ Thou blynde Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outsyde of them may be cleane also 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 ²⁸ Euen so, ye also, outwardly appeare ryghteous vnto men: But within, ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie ²⁹ Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: ye builde the tombes of the Prophetes, and garnishe the sepulchres of the ryghteous 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 ³¹ And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes ³² Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers ³³ Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell 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 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 ³⁶ Ueryly I say vnto you: all these thynges shal come vpon this generatio 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 ³⁸ Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate 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