SATIRE

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• 1 Samuel 1:5

  but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:6

  Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

• 1 Samuel 1:7

  As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

• 1 Samuel 1:8

  Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

• 1 Samuel 1:9

  So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

• 1 Samuel 1:10

  She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

• 1 Samuel 2:1

  Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

• 1 Samuel 2:2

  There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

• 1 Samuel 2:4

  “The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

• 1 Samuel 2:5

  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

• 1 Samuel 2:6

  “Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

• 1 Samuel 2:8

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

• 1 Samuel 2:9

  He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

• 1 Samuel 2:10

  Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

• Matthew 23:2

  saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

• Matthew 23:3

  All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

• Matthew 23:4

  For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

• Matthew 23:5

  But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

• Matthew 23:6

  and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

• Matthew 23:7

  the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

• Matthew 23:8

  But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

• Matthew 23:9

  Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

• Matthew 23:10

  Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

• Matthew 23:11

  But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

• Matthew 23:12

  Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

• Matthew 23:13

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

• Matthew 23:14

  “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

• Matthew 23:15

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

• Matthew 23:16

  “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

• Matthew 23:17

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

• Matthew 23:18

  ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

• Matthew 23:19

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Matthew 23:20

  He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

• Matthew 23:21

  He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

• Matthew 23:22

  He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

• Matthew 23:23

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Matthew 23:24

  You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

• Matthew 23:25

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

• Matthew 23:26

  You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

• Matthew 23:27

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 23:28

  Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

• Matthew 23:29

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

• Matthew 23:30

  and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

• Matthew 23:31

  Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

• Matthew 23:32

  Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

• Matthew 23:33

  You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

• Mark 12:13

  They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

• Mark 12:14

  When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

• Mark 12:15

  Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

• Mark 12:16

  They brought it. He said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”

• Mark 12:17

  Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

• Mark 12:18

  There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

• Mark 12:19

  “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• Mark 12:20

  There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

• Mark 12:21

  The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

• Mark 12:22

  and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

• Mark 12:23

  In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”

• Mark 12:24

  Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

• Mark 12:25

  For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

• Mark 12:26

  But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

• Mark 12:27

  He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”

• Mark 12:28

  One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?”

• Mark 12:29

  Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

• Mark 12:30

  you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

• Mark 12:31

  The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

• Mark 12:32

  The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,

• Mark 12:33

  and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

• Mark 12:34

  When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.

• Mark 12:35

  Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

• Mark 12:36

  For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’

• Mark 12:37

  Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.

• Mark 12:38

  In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

• Mark 12:39

  and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:

• Mark 12:40

  those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

• Luke 11:39

  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.

• Luke 11:40

  You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

• Luke 11:41

  But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

• Luke 11:42

  But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Luke 11:43

  Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

• Luke 11:44

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

• Luke 11:45

  One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

• Luke 11:46

  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.

• Luke 11:47

  Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

• Luke 11:48

  So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

• Luke 11:49

  Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

• Luke 11:50

  that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

• Luke 11:51

  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.

• Luke 11:52

  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.”

• Luke 11:53

  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;

• Luke 11:54

  lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.