Mark 12:38-40 - Warning To Beware Of The Scribes

³⁸ And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and love salutations in the markets, ³⁹ and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers; ⁴⁰ who eat up the houses of widows, and, as a pretext, make long prayers: these shall receive more abundant condemnation.

⁴⁵ And while all the people were listening, he said to his disciples: ⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who delight to walk in robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers; ⁴⁷ who eat up the houses of widows, and, for a pretext, make long prayers. These shall receive the greater condemnation.