And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?
the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
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