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Chapter 23 (199) GOSPEL OF MATTHEW
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oe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous, saying, if we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have partaken with them in the blood of the prophets! Therefore, you testify to your- selves that you are children of those who killed the prophets! Fill up, then, the measure of sin of your forefathers. You serpents, offspring of vi- pers, how will you escape the judgment of Ge- henna? Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your syn- agogues and persecute from city to city. Thus all the righteous blood shed on the earth will come
Wednesday of the 11th Week:
The Lord said to the Jews who had come to him: ...*
This is also read to the Feast of the Prophets.
For you are like whitewashed tombs which ap- pear beautiful on the outside, but inside, they are full of dead bones and all kinds of impurity. Likewise, you also appear righteous to men out- wardly, but inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
End to Tuesday.
Per. 96.
