If Jesus was at dinner with morally upright religious leaders today, what might he say they are doing wrong?
In todays religious leaders knows already this chapter it is morally upright to clean or wash the hands first before meal for good health, but may be lord Jesus will allow this traditions and the lord reads the heart of the person deep inside, if they have a character of humbleness or hypocrites. By: nathaniel villaruz - November 03, 2006 - Public Category: Six Woes
Now as he spoke, a
certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the
table. When the Pharisee
saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
The Lord said to him,
"Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and
of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
You foolish ones, didn't
he who made the outside make the inside also? But give for gifts to the needy
those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to
you. But woe to you
Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass
justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have
left the other undone. Woe to you Pharisees! For you
love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the
marketplaces. Woe to
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves,
and the men who walk over them don't know it." One of the lawyers
answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you insult us also."
He said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens
that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even lift one finger
to help carry those burdens. Woe to you! For you build the
tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. So you testify and consent to
the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their
tombs. Therefore also
the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and
some of them they will kill and persecute, that the blood of all the
prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required
of this generation; from
the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the
altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this
generation. Woe to you
lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn't enter in
yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered." As he said these
things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry,
and to draw many things out of him; lying in wait for him, and
seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
