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Mateus 23 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
36 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1Now Jesus turned to address his disciples, along with the crowd that had gathered with them.
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1Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,
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2"The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God's Law.
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2saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses seat:
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3You won't go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don't live it. They don't take it into their hearts and live it out in their behavior. It's all spit-and-polish veneer.
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3all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.
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4"Instead of giving you God's Law as food and drink by which you can banquet on God, they package it in bundles of rules, loading you down like pack animals. They seem to take pleasure in watching you stagger under these loads, and wouldn't think of lifting a finger to help.
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4Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
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5Their lives are perpetual fashion shows, embroidered prayer shawls one day and flowery prayers the next.
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5But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
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6They love to sit at the head table at church dinners, basking in the most prominent positions,
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6and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
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7preening in the radiance of public flattery, receiving honorary degrees, and getting called 'Doctor' and 'Reverend.'
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7and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi.
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8"Don't let people do that to you, put you on a pedestal like that. You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates.
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8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.
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9Don't set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do. No one else should carry the title of 'Father'; you have only one Father, and he's in heaven.
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9And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven.
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10And don't let people maneuver you into taking charge of them. There is only one Life-Leader for you and them—Christ.
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10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ.
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11"Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant.
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11But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
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12If you puff yourself up, you'll get the wind knocked out of you. But if you're content to simply be yourself, your life will count for plenty.
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12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
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13"I've had it with you! You're hopeless, you religion scholars, you Pharisees! Frauds! Your lives are roadblocks to God's kingdom. You refuse to enter, and won't let anyone else in either.
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13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.
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15"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You go halfway around the world to make a convert, but once you get him you make him into a replica of yourselves, double-damned.
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15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
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16"You're hopeless! What arrogant stupidity! You say, 'If someone makes a promise with his fingers crossed, that's nothing; but if he swears with his hand on the Bible, that's serious.'
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16Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
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17What ignorance! Does the leather on the Bible carry more weight than the skin on your hands?
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17Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?
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18And what about this piece of trivia: 'If you shake hands on a promise, that's nothing; but if you raise your hand that God is your witness, that's serious'?
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18And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.
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19What ridiculous hairsplitting! What difference does it make whether you shake hands or raise hands?
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19Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
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20A promise is a promise. What difference does it make if you make your promise inside or outside a house of worship? A promise is a promise. God is present, watching and holding you to account regardless.
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20He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
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21And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
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22And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
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23"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but on the meat of God's Law, things like fairness and compassion and commitment—the absolute basics!—you carelessly take it or leave it. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required.
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23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
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24Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that's wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons?
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24Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
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25"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You burnish the surface of your cups and bowls so they sparkle in the sun, while the insides are maggoty with your greed and gluttony.
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25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.
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26Stupid Pharisee! Scour the insides, and then the gleaming surface will mean something.
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26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.
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27"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You're like manicured grave plots, grass clipped and the flowers bright, but six feet down it's all rotting bones and worm-eaten flesh.
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27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
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28People look at you and think you're saints, but beneath the skin you're total frauds.
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28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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29"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You build granite tombs for your prophets and marble monuments for your saints.
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29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,
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30And you say that if you had lived in the days of your ancestors, no blood would have been on your hands.
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30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
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31You protest too much! You're cut from the same cloth as those murderers,
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31Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.
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32and daily add to the death count.
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32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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33"Snakes! Reptilian sneaks! Do you think you can worm your way out of this? Never have to pay the piper?
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33Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
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34It's on account of people like you that I send prophets and wise guides and scholars generation after generation—and generation after generation you treat them like dirt, greeting them with lynch mobs, hounding them with abuse.
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34Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
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35"You can't squirm out of this: Every drop of righteous blood ever spilled on this earth, beginning with the blood of that good man Abel right down to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered at his prayers, is on your head.
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35that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.
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36All this, I'm telling you, is coming down on you, on your generation.
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36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
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37"Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Murderer of prophets! Killer of the ones who brought you God's news! How often I've ached to embrace your children, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you wouldn't let me.
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37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
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38And now you're so desolate, nothing but a ghost town.
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38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
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39What is there left to say? Only this: I'm out of here soon. The next time you see me you'll say, 'Oh, God has blessed him! He's come, bringing God's rule!' "
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39For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.