man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man
from that day forth ask him any more questions.

Matthew Chapter 23

Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the bad
example of the scribes and Pharisees. He warns his disciples not to
imitate their ambition and denounces divers woes against them for their
hypocrisy and blindness.

23:1. Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

23:2. Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of
Moses.

23:3. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and
do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not.

23:4. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on
men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

23:5. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make
their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

Phylacteries... that is, parchments, on which they wrote the ten
commandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes:
which the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem
more zealous for the law.

23:6. And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in
the synagogues,

23:7. And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men,
Rabbi.

23:8. But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you
are brethren.

23:9. And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who
is in heaven.

Call none your father--Neither be ye called masters, etc... The
meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be
regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who
would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are
by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and
spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 23:15,) and for our masters and teachers.

23:10. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ.

23:11. He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

23:12. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that
shall humble himself shall be exalted.

23:13. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you
shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for you yourselves do not enter
in and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

23:14. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour
the houses of widows, p