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28 Yet He said, "Indeed then, happy are those who are hearing the word of God and maintaining it!"
29 Now, the throngs being convened, He begins to be saying, "This generation is a wicked generation. A sign it is seeking, and a sign shall not be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet."
30 For, according as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, thus the Son of Mankind, also, will be to this generation."
31 The queen of the south will be roused in the judging with the men of this generation and will be condemning them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo! more than Solomon is here!"
32 Men, Ninevites, will be rising in the judging with this generation and they will be condemning it, for they repent at the heralding of Jonah, and lo! more than Jonah is here! "
33 Now no one, lighting a lamp, is placing it in hiding, nor yet under a peck measure but on a lampstand, that those going in may be observing the light."
34 The lamp of the body is your eye. Whenever, then, you eye may be single, your whole body, also, is luminous, yet if ever it may be wicked, your body, also is dark."
35 Be noting, then, that the light in you is not darkness."
36 If, then, your whole body is luminous, not having any part dark, luminous will be the whole, as whenever a lamp, in its flashing, may be illuminating you."
37 Now, in His speaking, a certain Pharisee is asking Him so that He should be lunching with him. Now entering, He leans back at table."
38 Now the Pharisee, perceiving it, marvels that He is not first baptized before luncheon."
39 Yet the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees are cleansing the outside of the cup and the platter, yet your inside is brimming with rapacity and wickedness."
40 Imprudent ones! Does not He Who makes the outside also make the inside?
41 However, what is within be giving as alms, and lo! all is clean to you."
42 But woe to you, Pharisees! for you are taking tithes from mint and rue and all greens, and you are passing by judging and the love of God. Now these it was binding for you to do and not to be devoid of those."
43 Woe to you, Pharisees! seeing that you are loving the front seat in the synagogues and the salutations in the markets."
44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are as the obscure tombs, and the men who are walking upon them are not aware of it."
45 Now, answering, a certain one of those learned in the law is saying to Him, "Teacher, saying these things, us also are you outraging."
46 Yet He said, "To you who are learned in the law, also, woe! for you are loading men with loads hard to bear, and you yourselves are not grazing the loads with one of your fingers."
47 Woe to you! for you are building the tombs of the prophets, yet your fathers kill them."
48 Consequently you are witnesses and are endorsing the acts of your fathers, for they, indeed, kill them, yet you are building their tombs."
49 Therefore, also, God's Wisdom said, 'I shall be dispatching to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will be killing and banishing,'"
50 that the blood of all the prophets which is shed from the disruption of the world may be exacted from this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the house. Yea, I am saying to you, It will be exacted from this generation!"
52 Woe to you who are learned in the law! for you take away the key of knowledge-you yourselves do not enter, and those who are entering you prevent."
53 And at His coming out thence, the scribes and the Pharisees begin to hem Him in dreadfully and to be quizzing Him concerning more things,
54 ambushing Him,seeking to pounce upon something out of His mouth, that they shall be accusing Him."