Seven Woes Pronounced on the Scribes and Pharisees

23 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses. Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as they do,[a] for they tell others to do something[b] and do not do it themselves.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:3 Literally “their deeds”
  2. Matthew 23:3 The words “others to do something” are not in the Greek text but are implied
  3. Matthew 23:3 *The words “it themselves” are not in the Greek text but are implied