Woe to you

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

Common way to denounce leaders in OT.

14 different books

Isiah uses 17 times

Woe from Matthew - Not the Woe and blessed from Luke

Today we heard 2 of Matthews 7 Woes

All of them are used to accuse them of Hypocrocy and creating burdens

There hypocrocy was telling the people how to live a holy Jewish life, but not doing it themselves

White washed tomb vs dead bones

Opposite of 1st reading Paul to The Thessalonians

labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you

holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers

There was little faith when Jesus walked this earth because of the Hypocrocy

But in Thessalonia we hear

that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God

Important question for all of us .... Is there hypocrocy in our lives

Wife’s cousing lost her faith .... Grandmother would always pray her rosary but was a terrible mean person

Could we be that same way

In Particular for us clergy. Woe was to denounce leaders. We must always ask ourselves