1. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2. ‘The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
3. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practise what they preach.
4. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5. ‘Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6. they love the place of honour at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;