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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 Jesus spoke to the crowds 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 have taken their seat on the chair of Moses.
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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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3Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice.
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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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4They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people's shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them.
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5Their lives are perpetual fashion shows, embroidered prayer shawls one day and flowery prayers the next.
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5All their works are performed to be seen. They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
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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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6They love places of honor at banquets, seats of honor in 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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7greetings in marketplaces, and the salutation '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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8As for you, do not be called 'Rabbi.' You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers.
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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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9Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father 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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10Do not be called 'Master'; you have but one master, the Messiah.
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11"Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant.
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11The greatest among you must 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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12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will 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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13"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying 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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15"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as 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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16"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'If one swears by the temple, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gold of the temple, one is obligated.'
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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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17Blind fools, which is greater, the gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred?
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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 you say, 'If one swears by the altar, it means nothing, but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is obligated.'
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19What ridiculous hairsplitting! What difference does it make whether you shake hands or raise hands?
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19You blind ones, which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
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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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20One who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is upon it;
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21one who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it;
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22one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who is seated on it.
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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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23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. these you should have done, without neglecting the others.
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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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24Blind guides, who 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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25"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.
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26Stupid Pharisee! Scour the insides, and then the gleaming surface will mean something.
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26Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.
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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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27"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth.
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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, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.
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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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29"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials 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 you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets' blood.'
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31You protest too much! You're cut from the same cloth as those murderers,
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31Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets;
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32and daily add to the death count.
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32now fill up what your ancestors measured out!
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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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33You serpents, you brood of vipers, how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?
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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 to you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,
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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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35so that there may come upon you all the righteous blood shed upon earth, from the righteous blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered 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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36Amen, I say to you, all these things will 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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37"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were unwilling!
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38And now you're so desolate, nothing but a ghost town.
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38Behold, your house will be abandoned, 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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39I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"