Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Matthew by R F Weymouth
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these two Commandments."
022:041 While the Pharisees were still assembled there, Jesus put a question to them. 022:042 "What think you about the Christ," He said, "whose son is He?" "David's," they replied. 022:043 "How then," He asked, "does David, taught by the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says, 022:044 "`The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'? 022:045 "If therefore David calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?" 022:046 No one could say a word in reply, nor from that day did any one venture again to put a question to Him. 023:001 Then Jesus addressed the crowds and His disciples. 023:002 "The Scribes," He said, "and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses. 023:003 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. 023:004 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. 023:005 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large, 023:006 and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues, 023:007 and like to be bowed to in places of public resort, and to be addressed by men as `Rabbi.' 023:008 "As for you, do not accept the title of `Rabbi,' for one alone is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. 023:009 And call no one on earth your Father, for One alone is your Father-- the Heavenly Father. 023:010 And do not accept the name of `leader,' for your Leader is |
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