“But wae for ye, Scribes and Pharisees, pretenders! for ye steek up the Kingdom oʼ Heeven afore men wha wad gang in; ye naither gang in yersels, nor alloo them to gang in wha wad!
“And again, whan ye are fastin, ye arena to be as the pretenders, wiʼ wae iʼ yere faces; for they mar their looks, that they may kythe afore men as fastin. Aye, aye! say I, they too hae their reward!
And at a time whan the folk war that thick thegither that they war trampin ower ane anither, he begude to say to his disciples first — “Tak tent to yersels, and be ye ʼware oʼ the barm oʼ the Pharisees, whilk in sooth is pretence.
And he said to them, “Ye are thae wha pit their sels richt afore men, but God taks tent oʼ yere hearts; for the lofty amang men is an abomination in Godʼs sicht.
And whan Peter saw this, he spak: “Ye men oʼ Israʼl! whaurfor ferlie ye at this man? or glower sae at us as gin by some pooer or holiness oʼ oor ain we had garʼt this man to gang?