Matthew 23:1

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

“ ‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”

The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, you people, all of you!”

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

“Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?