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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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