Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
(Luke 11:37–54)

1Then spake Iesus to the multitudes, and to his disciples, 2Saying: The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moyses seate. 3All therfore, whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and do: but do not ye after their workes, for they say, and do not. 4Yea, they bynde together heauy burthens, and greeuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders: but they them selues wyll not moue them with one of their fingers. 5All their workes they do, for to be sene of men: They make broade their philacteries, and enlarge the hemmes of their garmentes. 6And loue the vppermost seates at feastes, and to syt in the chiefe place in councels, 7And greetynges in the markettes, and to be called of men, Rabbi. 8But be not ye called Rabbi: For one is your maister, euen Christe, and all ye are brethren. 9And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen. 10Neither be ye called maisters: for one is your maister euen Christe. 11He that is greatest among you, shalbe your seruaunt. 12But whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.

13Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in. 14Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widdowes houses, and that vnder a pretence of long prayer: therfore ye shall receaue the greater dampnation.

15Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye compasse sea and lande, to make one proselite: & when he is become one, ye make hym two folde more the chylde of hell, then ye your selues are.

16Wo be vnto you ye blynde guides: for ye say, whosoeuer doth sweare by the temple, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the temple, he is a detter. 17Ye fooles and blynde. For whether is greater, the golde, or the temple that sanctifieth the golde? 18And whosoeuer sweareth by the aulter, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the gyft that is vpon it, he is a detter. 19Ye fooles and blynde, for whether is greater, the gyft: or the aulter that sanctifieth the gyft? 20Who so therfore sweareth by the aulter, sweareth by it, and by all thynges theron. 21And who so sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by hym that dwelleth therin. 22And he that sweareth by heauen, sweareth by the seate of God, and by hym that sitteth theron.

23Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye tythe mynt, and annise, and cummyn: and haue left the wayghtier matters of the lawe, iudgement, mercy, and fayth. These ought ye to haue done, and not to leaue the other vndone. 24Ye blynde guides, which strayne out a gnat, and swalowe a Camel.

25Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter syde of the cup, & of the platter: but within they are full of brybery & excesse. 26Thou blynde Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outsyde of them may be cleane also.

27Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: for ye are lyke vnto paynted sepulchres, which in dede appeare beautifull outwarde, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all fylthynes. 28Euen so, ye also, outwardly appeare ryghteous vnto men: But within, ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

29Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: ye builde the tombes of the Prophetes, and garnishe the sepulchres of the ryghteous: 30And say, yf we had ben in the dayes of our fathers, we woulde not haue ben parteners with them in the blood of the prophetes. 31And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes. 32Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers. 33Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell?

34Wherfore, beholde I sende vnto you prophetes, and wyse men, and Scribes, and some of them ye shall kyll and crucifie: and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from citie to citie. 35That vpon you may come all the ryghteous blood, which hath ben shed vpon the earth, from the blood of ryghteous Abel, vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias, whom ye slewe betwene the temple & the aulter. 36Ueryly I say vnto you: all these thynges shal come vpon this generatio.

Lament over Jerusalem
(Luke 13:31–35)

37O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, thou that kyllest the prophetes, and stonest them which are sent vnto thee: Howe often woulde I haue gathered thy chyldren together, euen as the henne gathereth her chickens vnder her wynges, and ye woulde not? 38Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate. 39For I say vnto you: ye shall not see me hencefoorth, tyll that ye say, blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lorde.