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The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew 1291

23 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp- 35 That upon you may come all the just blood
ocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and that hath been shed upon the earth, from the
cummin, and have left the weightier things of blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of
the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed
things you ought to have done, and not to leave between the temple and the altar.
those undone. 36 Amen I say to you, all these things shall
24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and come upon this generation.
swallow a camel. 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the
25 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp- prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto
ocrites; because you make clean the outside of thee, how often would I have gathered together
the cup and of the dish, but within you are full thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens
of rapine and uncleanness. under her wings, and thou wouldest not?
26 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the 38 Behold, you house shall be left to you, des-
inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside olate.
may become clean. 39 For I say to you, you shall not see me hence-
27 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp- forth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in
ocrites; because you are like to whited sepul- the name of the Lord.
chres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful,
but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of
all filthiness. Chapter 24
28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to
men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy And Jesus being come out of the temple, went
and iniquity. away. And his disciples came to shew him the
29 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hyp- buildings of the temple.
ocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, 2 And he answering, said to them: Do you see
and adorn the monuments of the just, all these things? Amen I say to you there shall
30 And say: If we had been in the days of our not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall
Fathers, we would not have been partakers with not be destroyed.
them in the blood of the prophets. 3 And when he was sitting on mount Olivet,
31 Wherefore you are witnesses against your- the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell
selves, that you are the sons of them that killed us when shall these things be? and what shall be
the prophets. the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. of the world?
33 You serpents, generation of vipers, how will 4 And Jesus answering, said to them: Take
you flee from the judgment of hell? heed that no man seduce you:
34 Therefore behold I send to you prophets, 5 For many will come in my name saying, I
and wise men, and scribes: and some of them am Christ: and they will seduce many.
you will put to death and crucify, and some you 6 And you shall hear of wars and rumours of
will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these
from city to city: things must come to pass, but the end is not