The Skeptics Annotated Bible (762 page)

6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

(23.9) “Call no man your father upon the earth.” Not even dear old dad? Was it OK for Elisha to cry out “father, father” as Elijah ascended into heaven? (2 Kg.2.12)
107 How should parents be treated?
108 Is it OK to call anyone “Father”?

10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

(23.10)
“Neither be ye called masters.”
But elsewhere slaves are told to faithfully serve their masters, and women are told to serve and obey their husbands.
42 Does God approve of slavery?
336 Should we serve God alone?

11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

(23.13-36) Jesus calls his critics fools (among other things like hypocrites and vipers), thus making himself eligible for “hell fire.” (Mt 5.22)
297 Is it OK to call someone a fool?

13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

(23.13)
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”

14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

(23.14)
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! … Ye shall receive the greater damnation.”

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

(23.15)
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”

16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

(23.16)
“Woe unto you, ye blind guides.”

17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

(23.17)
“Ye fools and blind”

18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

(23.19)
“Ye fools and blind”

20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

(23.23) “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”

24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

(23.24) “Ye blind guides”

25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

(23.25) “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

(23.26) “Thou blind Pharisee”

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

(23.27) “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

(23.29) “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”

30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

(23.31) “Ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.”

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

(23.33)
“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”

34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: