Luke 11:39–52

³⁹And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

⁴⁰Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make also that which is within?

⁴¹But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things are clean unto you.

⁴²But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

⁴³Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace.

⁴⁴Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.

⁴⁵And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also.

⁴⁶But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

⁴⁷Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers. For they indeed killed them: and you build their sepulchres.

⁴⁹For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute.

⁵⁰That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

⁵¹From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the altar and the temple. Yea I say to you: It shall be required of this generation.

⁵²Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were entering in, you have hindered.