“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes [displaying their prominence], and love respectful greetings in the [crowded] market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets.

and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them.

And the man answered Him, [Deut. 6:5], "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind." And [Lev. 19:18 says], " [You must love] your neighbor just as [you love] yourself."

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies with divine love, and do good to those that hate you,

Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the best seats in the synagogues and to be respectfully greeted in the market places.