Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat:

but they do all their works to be seen by men; they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

But to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the market-places,

and love the uppermost places at feasts,

Now when an impure spirit is gone out of a man, he wanders through dry desert places, seeking rest, and findeth none:

some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth; and they soon sprung up indeed, because they had no depth of earth;

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in several places: