Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as they do,[a] for they tell others to do something[b] and do not do it themselves.[c] And they tie up heavy burdens[d] and put them[e] on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing with their finger to move them. And they do all their deeds in order to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries broad and make their[f] tassels long.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:3 Literally “their deeds”
  2. Matthew 23:3 The words “others to do something” are not in the Greek text but are implied
  3. Matthew 23:3 *The words “it themselves” are not in the Greek text but are implied
  4. Matthew 23:4 Some manuscripts have “burdens that are heavy and hard to bear”
  5. Matthew 23:4 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  6. Matthew 23:5 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun