1
Then Jesus addressed the crowds and His disciples.
2
"The Scribes," He said, "and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses.
3
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.
4
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
5
And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large,
6
and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues,