Matthew 23:1-7 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