# Matthew 23

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/23

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples.
2. saying, "The scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses' seat."
3. Therefore, whatever they tell you, do and keep, but do not follow their deeds, for they say and do not.
4. They bind heavy burdens and place them on people's shoulders, but they themselves refuse to move them with one of their fingers.
5. But they do all their works to be seen by people, for they broaden their phylacteries and enlarge their fringes.
6. But they love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues.
7. and the greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi' by people.
8. But you, do not be called Rabbi, for one is your teacher, and all of you are brothers.
9. And do not call anyone on earth your father, for one is your heavenly Father.
10. Neither be called masters, because one is your master, the Christ.
11. But the greatest among you will be your servant.
12. But whoever exalts himself will be brought low, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven against people—for you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who are entering to enter.
14. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you consume widows' homes and for show offer lengthy prayers. Therefore you will face heavier judgment.
15. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you roam sea and dry land to produce one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice the son of hell you are.
16. Woe to you, blind guides, who say, "Whoever swears by the temple, it means nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound."
17. Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
18. And whoever swears by the altar, it means nothing; but whoever swears by the gift on it, he is bound.
19. Blind ones, for which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?
20. Therefore whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21. And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22. And whoever swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one seated upon it.
23. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, yet neglect the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. These you needed to practice without neglecting the others.
24. You blind guides who strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and platter, but inside they brim with extortion and indulgence.
26. Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and platter, so that its outside may become clean also.
27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you resemble whitewashed tombs which indeed seem beautiful on the outside but inwardly brim with bones of the dead and every impurity.
28. So also you outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the righteous.
30. And you say, "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets."
31. Thus you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.
32. And you, fill up the measure of your fathers.
33. Serpents, brood of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of hell?
34. For this reason, see, I send prophets, wise men, and scribes to you; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.
35. so that all righteous blood shed on the earth may come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
36. Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her—how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling!
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39. For I say to you, by no means will you see me from now until you say, “Blessed is the one coming in the name of the Lord.”

## Nearby chapters

[Matthew 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/22.md)
[Matthew 24](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/24.md)

Ask: https://www.lumin.faith/ask.md
Bible Coach: https://www.lumin.faith/bible-coach.md