“Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk around in long robes, and who love greetings in the marketplaces, and the most honourable seats in the synagogues, and the places of honour at feasts, who devour the houses of widows and, as an outward show, make lengthy prayers. These will receive the greater condemnation.”
2 Or outer courts of the temple
4 Greek The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men?
13 Or owner. So also v. 15
17 Greek those who build
17 Quoted from Ps. 118:22
18 Referring to Is. 8:14-15
20 Or jurisdiction
21 Greek do not receive person
22 Or pay taxes
25 Greek Render to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God
28 Or the widow
30 Some ancient manuscripts insert at this point the expression [having taken her] as wife, and he died childless