Радио ВЕРА - Евангелие от Матфея, Глава 23, стихи 1-12 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 23, Poems 1-12

1 Then Jesus began to tell the people and his disciples

2 and said: scribes and Pharisees sat on Moses Sedelishche;

3 So everything that they lead to observe, follow and do; Do not act on business, for they say, and do not do it:

4 connect the burdens heavy and unlucky and put on the shoulders of people, but they themselves do not want to move them with a finger;

5 Still, they are doing their deeds so that people can see them: expand their storage facilities and increase the insecurity of their clothes;

6 also love preferences at feasts and the chairmen in synagogues

7 Both greetings in public meetings, and so that people call them: “Teacher! teacher!"

8 And you are not called teachers, for one your teacher is Christ, yet you are brothers;

9 and your father do not call anyone on earth, for you have one father, who is in heaven;

10 and do not call mentors, for one of you is a mentor - Christ.

11 more of you may be a servant:

12 for, who exalts himself, he will be humiliated, and whoever humiliates himself will rise.

Comments the priest Dmitry Baritsky.

In the passage that we heard today, the Lord pronounces strange words: do not call himself a father and do not call yourself teachers and mentors. A person who will understand this call of Christ literally as a ban on pronouncing certain words in relation to someone risks being in a strange situation: a whole layer of socially significant relations on which any society is based from time immemorial will simply disappear from his life. He will be in a vacuum. Is the Lord a call for anarchy?

To understand the meaning of these words, it is necessary to consider the situation in which they were said. An excerpt begins with the fact that the Lord reproaches scribes and Pharisees. These were people who had extremely a lot of attention paid the execution of the external requirements of the Law of Moses. But that was not their problem. The problem was that they did it. Their main motive was not to please God, but to attract the attention of others to their piety. Of course, vanity was based on this behavior. As people, conceited Pharisees loved to turn to them with great respect, how they turn to the rabbi, that is, to the teacher of wisdom. They say that they demanded respect for themselves even more than people could provide their parents. “After all, parents,” they said, “give us a temporary life, and we teachers give us eternal life.” Therefore, sometimes they insisted that they were called "my father." So in the Jewish tradition they called the great saints, fathers of faith. The problem was not only that. The vanity that the Jewish leaders were obsessed with, inevitably entailed the exaltation of others, the neglect of them.

It is precisely in these two ailments that the Savior accuses the Jewish religious elite. It is in this sense that the further words of Christ must be understood. We are not talking about a fundamental ban on using the words “teacher”, “mentor”, “father”. Rather, the Lord warns prematurely and arbitrarily appropriate the glory that you have not yet possessed. After all, this will inevitably lead to serious spiritual diseases. Therefore, the words of Christ are better to understand how “do not make yourself teachers, mentors and do not indulge those who are premature to make themselves a father, harm both yourself and others.”

The Savior does not stop there. He perfectly understands that any person longs for the recognition of those who are nearby. Therefore, he indicates how this is a recognition, this respect and honor to acquire. The answer is simple: you want you to be recognized to be served, to be admired, forget about this your desire and start serving others yourself. At the moment when you least expect it, human glory, respect and honor will find you. You will become a teacher, a mentor, you will be called your father. Only here is the paradox: it is unlikely that then you will need it. After all, you have acquired something big, because now through you in your own life and in the life of other people Christ himself is reflected.