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1 Then Jesus addressed the crowds and His disciples. 2 "The Scribes," He said, "and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses. 3 Therefore do and observe everything that they command you; but do not imitate their lives, for though they tell others what to do, they do not do it themselves. 4 Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to lift them. 5 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large, 6 and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues, 7 and like to be bowed to in places of public resort, and to be addressed by men as 'Rabbi.' Matthew 23:1-7, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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