Bible Verses About Ecclesiasticism: The Jewish, rebuked by Jesus

WhileYeshua was in the house eating, many tax-collectors and sinners came and joined him and his talmidim at the meal.

When the P'rushim saw this, they said to his talmidim, "Why does your rabbi eat with tax-collectors and sinners?"

But Yeshua heard the question and answered, "The ones who need a doctor aren't the healthy but the sick.

As for you, go and learn what this means: `I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifices.' For I didn't come to call the `righteous,' but sinners!"

"The Torah-teachers and the P'rushim," he said, "sit in the seat of Moshe.

So whatever they tell you, take care to do it. But don't do what they do, because they talk but don't act!

They tie heavy loads onto people's shoulders but won't lift a finger to help carry them

"But you are not to let yourselves be called `Rabbi'; because you have one Rabbi, and you are all each other's brothers.

And do not call anyone on earth `Father.' because you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

Nor are you to let yourselves be called `leaders,' because you have one Leader, and he is the Messiah!

"But woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! For you are shutting the Kingdom of Heaven in people's faces, neither entering yourselves nor allowing those who wish to enter to do so.

Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! For you swallow up widow's houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Because of this your punishment will be all the worse

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You go about over land and sea to make one proselyte; and when you succeed, you make him twice as fit for Gei-Hinnom as you are!

"Woe to you, you blind guides! You say, `If someone swears by the Temple, he is not bound by his oath; but if he swears by the gold in the Temple, he is bound.'

You blind fools! Which is more important? the gold? or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

And you say, `If someone swears by the altar, he is not bound by his oath; but if he swears by the offering on the altar, he is bound.'

Blind men! Which is more important? the sacrifice? or the altar which makes the sacrifice holy

So someone who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it.

And someone who swears by the Temple swears by it and the One who lives in it

And someone who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and the One who sits on it.

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You pay your tithes of mint, dill and cumin; but you have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah -- justice, mercy, trust. These are the things you should have attended to -- without neglecting the others!

Blind guides! -- straining out a gnat, meanwhile swallowing a camel!

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self indulgence.

Blind Parush! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean too.

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and all kinds of rottenness.