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Matthew 23 
Jesus Critica os Líderes Religiosos
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Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:
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The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses
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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.
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They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs but they
themselves will not put a finger to them.
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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,
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And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the
chief seats in the Synagogues,
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And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men,
Teacher.
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But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are
all brothers.
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And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father,
who is in heaven.
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And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even
Christ.
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But let the greatest among you be your servant.
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And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes
himself low will be made high.
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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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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.
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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.
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You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple
which makes the gold holy?
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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.
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You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes
the offering holy?
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He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by
all things on it.
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And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him
whose house it is.
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And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by
him who is seated on it.
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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.
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You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble
over a camel.
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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.
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You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the
plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
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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.
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Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are
all false and full of wrongdoing.
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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,
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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.
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So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of
those who put the prophets to death.
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Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
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You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment
of hell?
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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
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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.
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Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.
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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!
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See, your house is made waste.
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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.
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