Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the Synagogues, and the chief rooms at Feasts;
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his talmidim first of all, Beware ye of the hametz of the Prushim, which is hypocrisy.