41 They strut about and show their pride when people call them father, so and so.
42 Hear, now, you men, Call no man father here. The God of heaven and earth, and he alone, is Father of the race of men.
43 Christ is the hierarch, the high, exalted master of the sons of men.
44 If you would be exalted, sit down at the master’s feet and serve. He is the greatest man who serves the best.
CHAPTER 156.
The scribes and Pharisees are angered. Jesus rebukes them for their hypocrisy. He laments over Jerusalem. The widow’s mite. Jesus delivers his farewell address to the people in the temple.
The scribes and Pharisees were wild with rage; and Jesus said,
2 Woe unto you, you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! you stand within the way; you block the door; you will not go into the kingdom and you turn aside the pure in heart who are about to enter in.
3 Woe unto you, you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he has been made he is a son of hell, just like yourselves.
4 Woe unto you who call yourselves the guides of men! and you are guides, blind guides;