The Last Discourse of Christ
The Last Discourse of Christ
Gospel According to Saint Matthew
1) Then Jesus spoke
to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2) Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on
the chair of Moses. 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. 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. 5) And
all their works they do for to be seen of men.
For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
5)
"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. 6) And they love the first places at feasts, and
the first chairs in the synagogues, 7)
And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men,
Rabbi. 8) But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your
master; and all you are brethren.
9) And call none your father upon
earth for one if your Father, who is in heaven.
10) Neither be ye called masters;
for one is your master, Christ.
11) He that is the
greatest among you shall be your servant.
12) And whosoever shall exalt himself
shall be humbled: and he that shall
humble himself shall be exalted. 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. 14)
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows;
praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment. 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.
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. 17) Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater,
the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 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.
19) Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the
altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20) He therefore that sweareth by
the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:
21) And whosoever
shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it: 22) And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by
the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. 23) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
because you tithe mint, and anise, and cumin, 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. 24) Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and
swallow a camel. 25) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, bu within you
are full of rapine and uncleanness.
26) Thou blind
Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside
may become clean. 27) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
because you are like the whited sepulchers, which outwardly appear to men
beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness. 28) So
you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity. 29) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
that build the sepulchers of the
prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, 30) And say:
If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers
with them in the blood of the prophets.
31) Wherefore you are
witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons that killed the
prophets. 32) Fill ye up then the measure of your
fathers. 33) You serpents, generation of
vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? 34) Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and
wise men, and scribes: and some of them
you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your
synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
35) That upon you may come all
the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the
just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed
between the temple and the altar.
36) Amen I say to
you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37)
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children,
as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest
not? 38)
Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. 39)
For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord
The Last Discourse of Christ
Gospel According to Saint Matthew
1) Then Jesus spoke
to the multitudes and to his disciples, 2) Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on
the chair of Moses. 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. 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. 5) And
all their works they do for to be seen of men.
For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
5)
"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. 6) And they love the first places at feasts, and
the first chairs in the synagogues, 7)
And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men,
Rabbi. 8) But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your
master; and all you are brethren.
9) And call none your father upon
earth for one if your Father, who is in heaven.
10) Neither be ye called masters;
for one is your master, Christ.
11) He that is the
greatest among you shall be your servant.
12) And whosoever shall exalt himself
shall be humbled: and he that shall
humble himself shall be exalted. 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. 14)
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows;
praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment. 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.
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. 17) Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater,
the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 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.
19) Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the
altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20) He therefore that sweareth by
the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:
21) And whosoever
shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it: 22) And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by
the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. 23) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
because you tithe mint, and anise, and cumin, 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. 24) Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and
swallow a camel. 25) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, bu within you
are full of rapine and uncleanness.
26) Thou blind
Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside
may become clean. 27) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
because you are like the whited sepulchers, which outwardly appear to men
beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness. 28) So
you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity. 29) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites;
that build the sepulchers of the
prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, 30) And say:
If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers
with them in the blood of the prophets.
31) Wherefore you are
witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons that killed the
prophets. 32) Fill ye up then the measure of your
fathers. 33) You serpents, generation of
vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? 34) Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and
wise men, and scribes: and some of them
you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your
synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
35) That upon you may come all
the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the
just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed
between the temple and the altar.
36) Amen I say to
you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37)
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children,
as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest
not? 38)
Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. 39)
For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord