raying long prayers. For this you shall receive
the greater judgment.

23:15. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go
round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is
made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

23:16. Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the
temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple
is a debtor.

23:17. Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the
temple that sanctifieth the gold?

23:18. And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but
whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.

23:19. Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the
altar that sanctifieth the gift?

23:20. He therefore that sweareth by the altar sweareth by it and by all
things that are upon it.

23:21. And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him
that dwelleth in it.

23:22. And he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and
by him that sitteth thereon.

23:23. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe
mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law:
judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and
not to leave those undone.

23:24. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

23:25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make
clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of
rapine and uncleanness.

23:26. Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and
of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

23:27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are
like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but
within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

23:28. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you
are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

23:29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the
sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

Build the sepulchres, etc... This is not blamed, as if it were in itself
evil to build or adorn the monuments of the prophets: but the hypocrisy
of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they pretended to honour the
memory of the prophets, were persecuting even unto death the Lord of the
prophets.

23:30. And say: If we had