Matthew 23:13 Cross References - Riverside

¹³ "But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven before men. You yourselves do not enter nor do you permit those who are entering to go in.

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly the tax collectors and the bad women are going before you into the kingdom of God. ³² For John came to you in the path of righteousness and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and the bad women believed him. And you when you saw it did not change your minds afterwards and believe him.

¹³ "But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut the kingdom of heaven before men. You yourselves do not enter nor do you permit those who are entering to go in. ¹⁴ TEXT OMITTED ¹⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is won you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

²³ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint, dill, and carraway and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law — justice and kindness and good faith. These you should have practiced, without neglecting those other things.

²⁵ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full through greed and self-indulgence.

²⁷ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of uncleanness.

²⁹ "Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous

⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! for you love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the market-places. ⁴⁴ Alas for you! for you are like unmarked graves. The men who walk over them do not know it."

⁵² Alas for you lawyers! because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered and you have prevented those who were entering."

⁴⁶ The officers answered, "Never any man spoke as this man speaks." ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deluded? ⁴⁸ Can it be that any one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd who do not know the Law are cursed." ⁵⁰ Nicodemus said to them — he who came to Jesus before — being himself one of them, ⁵¹ "Does our Law condemn any man without first hearing from him and learning what he is doing?" ⁵² They answered him, "Can it be that you too are from Galilee? Examine and see that from Galilee no prophet arises."

²² His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed Jesus as the Christ, he should be cast out of the synagogue.

²⁴ They called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

³⁴ They answered him, "You were born in sin — wholly; and are you teaching us?" and they cast him out.

¹⁷ But that it may not spread further among the people, let us sternly forbid them to speak any longer in this name to any one." ¹⁸ So, calling them in, they commanded them absolutely not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus.

²⁸ "Did we not strictly order you not to teach in this name? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and want to bring this man's blood on us."

⁴⁰ They were persuaded by him. So they called in the apostles and gave them a flogging and ordered them not to go on speaking in the name of Jesus, and then set them at liberty;

¹ SAUL also approved of their putting him to death. On that day arose a great persecution of the church in Jerusalem. All except the apostles were scattered through Judaea and Samaria.

⁸ But Elymas the magician (for that is the translation of his name) opposed them, endeavoring to turn the Proconsul away from the faith.

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out and do not please God and are enemies to all men, ¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. All this goes always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's fiercest wrath has overtaken them.

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth, depraved in mind, proved to be worthless as regards the faith.

¹⁵ Be on your guard against him, for he strongly opposed our teachings.