Living_Oracles(i)
28 Say, rather, replied he, Happy they who hear the word of God, and obey.
29 When the people crowded together, he said, This is an evil generation. They demand a sign; but no sign shall be given them, only the sign of Jonah.
30 For, as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of Man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south country will arise in the judgment against the men of this generation, and cause them to be condemned: because she came from the extremities of the earth, to hear the wise discourses of Solomon: and behold, here is something greater than Solomon.
32 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment against this generation, and cause it to be condemned: because they reformed when warned by Jonah: and behold, here is something greater than Jonah.
33 A lamp is lighted, not to be concealed, or put under a vessel, but on a stand; that they who enter may have light.
34 The lamp of the body is the eye: when, therefore, your eye is sound, the whole body is enlightened; but when your eye is distempered, your body is in darkness.
35 Take heed, then, lest the light which is in you, be darkness.
36 If your whole body, therefore, be enlightened, having no part dark; the whole will be so enlightened, as when a lamp lights you by its flame.
37 While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. And he went and placed himself at table.
38 But the Pharisee was surprised to observe that he used no washing before dinner.
39 Then the Lord said to him, As for you, Pharisees, you cleanse the outside of your cups and dishes, while you yourselves are inwardly full of rapacity and malevolence.
40 Unthinking men! did not he who made the outside, make the inside also?
41 Only give in alms what you have, and all things shall be clean to you.
42 Alas, for you, Pharisees! because you pay the tithe of mint and rue, and of every kind of herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These things you ought to have practiced, and not to have omitted those.
43 Alas, for you, Pharisees! because you love the most conspicuous seats in synagogues, and salutations in public places.
44 Alas, for you! because you are like concealed graves, over which people walk without knowing it.
45 Here, one of the lawyers interposing, said, By speaking thus, Rabbi, you reproach us also.
46 He answered, Alas, for you, lawyers! also; because you lade men with intolerable burdens-burdens which you yourselves will not so much as touch with one of your fingers.
47 Alas, for you! because you build the monuments of the prophets, whom your fathers killed.
48 Surely you are both vouchers and accessories to the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their monuments.
49 Wherefore, thus says the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and Apostles: some of them they will kill, others they will banish;
50 so that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed since the formation of the world, shall be required of this generation;
51 from the blood of Abel, to the blood of Zechariah, who fell between the altar and the house of God. Yes, I assure you, all shall be required of this generation.
52 Alas, for you, lawyers! because you have carried off the key of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and those who entering, you hindered.
53 While he spoke these things, the Scribes and the Pharisees began vehemently to press him with questions, on many points;
54 laying snares for him, in order to draw from his own mouth, matter of accusation against him.