1 Toe het Jesus die skare en sy dissipels toegespreek
2 en gesê: Die skrifgeleerdes en die Fariseërs sit op die stoel van Moses.
3 Alles wat hulle dan vir julle mag sê om te onderhou, onderhou en doen dit; maar volgens hulle werke moet julle nie doen nie, want hulle praat en doen nie.
4 Want hulle bind pakke saam wat swaar en moeilik is om te dra, en sit dit op die skouers van die mense, maar self wil hulle dit nie met hulle vinger verroer nie.
5 En hulle doen al hul werke om deur die mense gesien te word, en hulle maak hul gedenkseëls breed en die some van hul klere groot.
6 En hulle hou van die voorste plekke by die maaltye en die voorste banke in die sinagoges
7 en die begroetinge op die markte en om deur die mense genoem te word: Rabbi, Rabbi!
8 Maar julle, laat jul nie Rabbi noem nie, want een is julle leermeester: Christus, en julle is almal broeders.
9 En julle moet niemand op die aarde julle vader noem nie, want een is julle Vader, Hy wat in die hemele is.
10 Julle moet julle ook nie leermeesters laat noem nie, want een is julle leermeester: Christus.
11 Maar die grootste van julle moet jul dienaar wees.
12 Wie homself verhoog, sal verneder word, en wie homself verneder, sal verhoog word.
13 Maar wee julle, skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs, geveinsdes, want julle sluit die koninkryk van die hemele toe voor die mense; want julle gaan self nie in nie, en die wat sou ingaan, laat julle nie toe om in te gaan nie.
14 Wee julle, skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs, geveinsdes, want julle eet die huise van die weduwees op, en doen vir die skyn lang gebede. Daarom sal julle 'n swaarder oordeel ontvang.
15 Wee julle, skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs, geveinsdes, want julle trek rond oor see en land om een bekeerling te maak; en as hy dit geword het, maak julle hom 'n kind van die hel, twee maal erger as julle self.
16 Wee julle, blinde leiers, julle wat sê: Elkeen wat sweer by die tempel -- dit is niks nie; maar elkeen wat sweer by die goud van die tempel, hy is gebonde.
17 Julle dwase en blindes, want wat is meer: die goud, of die tempel wat die goud heilig?
18 En: Elkeen wat sweer by die altaar -- dit is niks nie; maar elkeen wat sweer by die gawe daar bo-op, hy is gebonde.
19 Julle dwase en blindes, want wat is meer: die gawe, of die altaar wat die gawe heilig?
20 Wie dan sweer by die altaar, sweer d rby en by alles wat daarop is;
21 en wie sweer by die tempel, sweer d rby en by Hom wat daarin woon;
22 en wie sweer by die hemel, sweer by die troon van God en by Hom wat daarop sit.
23 Wee julle, skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs, geveinsdes, want julle gee tiendes van kruisement en anys en koljander, en die swaarste van die wet laat julle n : die reg en die barmhartigheid en die trou. Hierdie dinge behoort julle te doen sonder om die ander na te laat.
24 Blinde leiers, julle wat die muggie uitsif, maar die kameel insluk!
25 Wee julle, skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs, geveinsdes, want julle maak die buitekant van die beker en die skottel skoon, maar binnekant is dit vol roof en onmatigheid.
26 Blinde Fariseër, maak eers die binnekant van die beker en die skottel skoon, sodat ook die buitekant daarvan skoon kan word.
27 Wee julle, skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs, geveinsdes, want julle is net soos gewitte grafte wat van buite wel fraai lyk, maar van binne vol doodsbene en allerhande onreinheid is.
28 So lyk julle ook van buite vir die mense wel regverdig, maar van binne is julle vol geveinsdheid en ongeregtigheid.
29 Wee julle, skrifgeleerdes en Fariseërs, geveinsdes, want julle bou die grafte van die profete en versier die grafstene van die regverdiges;
30 en julle sê: As ons in die dae van ons vaders geleef het, sou ons geen deel met hulle gehad het aan die bloed van die profete nie.
31 Julle gee dus teen julself getuienis dat julle kinders is van die wat die profete vermoor het.
32 Maak die maat van julle vaders dan vol!
33 Slange, addergeslag, hoe sal julle die oordeel van die hel ontvlug?
34 Daarom, kyk, Ek stuur profete en wyse manne en skrifgeleerdes na julle toe, en julle sal sommige van hulle doodmaak en kruisig en sommige van hulle in jul sinagoges g,sel en van die een stad na die ander vervolg,
35 sodat oor julle kan kom al die regverdige bloed wat vergiet is op die aarde, van die bloed van die regverdige Abel af tot op die bloed van Sagar¡a, die seun van Ber,gja, wat julle vermoor het tussen die tempel en die altaar.
36 Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, al hierdie dinge sal oor hierdie geslag kom.
37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, jy wat die profete doodmaak en stenig die wat na jou gestuur is, hoe dikwels wou Ek jou kinders bymekaarmaak net soos 'n hen haar kuikens onder die vlerke bymekaarmaak, en julle wou nie!
38 Kyk, julle huis word vir julle woes gelaat!
39 Want Ek sê vir julle: Julle sal My van nou af sekerlik nie sien nie totdat julle sal sê: Geseënd is Hy wat kom in die Naam van die Here!
1 Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:
2 The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;
3 All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
4 They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
5 But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,
6 And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,
7 And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.
8 But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.
9 And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.
10 And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.
11 But let the greatest among you be your servant.
12 And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
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15 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
16 A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.
17 You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
18 And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.
19 You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
20 He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
21 And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.
22 And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.
23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
24 You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
25 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
26 You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
27 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
28 Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
29 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,
30 If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
38 See, your house is made waste.
39 For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.