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Woes denounced

Chap. xxii. against hypocrites. them that are entering to go in.

make broad their phylacteries c and enlarge the borders d of their garments,

6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 And greetings in the markets,e and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.f

8 But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

9 And call no man your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

10 Neither be ye called Masters; for one is your Master, even Christ.

11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your ser

vant.

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14 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer; therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

15 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass h sea and land to make one proselyte ;i and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.

16 Wo unto you, ye blind guides!j which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.k.

17 Ye fools, 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 sweareth by the gift that is he is guilty. upon it,

19 Ye fools, and blind! for whether is greater the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

20 Whoso, therefore, shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it,

b Compass, ye traverse or pass over sea and land.

i Proselyte, a convert to Judaism. j Blind guides, false teachers.

He is a debtor; he is bound to regard his oath.

Concerning outward S. Matthew.

and by him that dwelleth

therein.

22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that

sitteth thereon.

23 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithel of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

24 Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat m and swallow a camel.

25 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

26 Thou blind Pharisee! cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear

Tithe was a tax of one tenth part of income, which the Jews devoted to God. The Pharisees were scrupulously exact in the observance of ceremonies, but negligent of the duties of humanity, and the love of God. m Which strain at a gnat, &c. In

this verse our Saviour tells the Pharisees, ye affect to be scrupulous about trifles, but disregard things of the greatest importance.

appearances.

beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hy-` pocrisy and iniquity.

29 Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish n the sepulchres of the righteous,

30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood o of the prophets.

31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

38 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes 6; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city;

35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

n Garnish, adorn. • The blood, in killing.

Jerusalem's destruction. Chap. xxiv.

36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

CHAP. XXIV.

1 The destruction of the temple foretold. 29 Of Christ's coming to judgment.

AND Jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and his disciples came to him, for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

3 And, as he sat upon the mount of Olives, a the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall

a Mount of Olives, or Mount Olivet, was a little more than half a mile east of Jerusalem, and separated from it by the valley of Jehoshaphat, through which run the brook Kidron. From the top of this mountain our Saviour ascended into heaven.

Calamities before it.

these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you : 5 For shall come in many my name saying, I-am Christ; and shall deceive many.

6 And ye shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars; see that ye be not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilenees, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill and you; shall ye be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive

many.

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many

shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness

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unto all nations; and then shall the end come.b

15 When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation,c spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth let him understand,)d

16 Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the house-top not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And wo unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days!

b The end come. The end of the Jewish state in Judea. This event took place with the destruction of Jerusalem about forty years after the crucifixion of our Lord.

c Abomination of desolation, &c. See

Dan. ix. 25, 27, and xi 11. The abomination of desolation here mentioned was probably the Roman armies, composed of heathen idolators, who had the images of idols painted on their banners, and who burnt the temple, spread ravage and desolation through the Holy Land, and put an end to the Jewish government.

d Let him understand, that this relates to the fulfilment of Daniel's prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Or, when ye shall see the Roman armies, the abomination of desolation to the Jews, standing in the Holy Land, or in the sacred temple of Jerusalem itself; then let them which are in Judea, &c.

false prophets.

20 But pray ye that your flight be not into the winter, neither on the sabbath-day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved,e but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that (if it were possible) they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore, if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

For as the lightning. cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcasef is, there will the eagles g be gathered together.

e And except those days of tribulation shall be shortened, there could no soul survive.

f Carcase, the Jewish nation dead in trespasses and sins.

g Eagles, the Roman armies, on whose banners was displayed the eagle.

Chap. xxiv.

Of Christ's coming 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken :

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes h of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now, learn a parable of the fig-tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh.

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 ¶ But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noe

b Tribes of the earth, tribes of the Jews, or of the Jewish earth.

to judgment, &c

were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch, therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43 But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would me he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44 Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season ?

46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing.

47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

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