²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone.

²⁴Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

²⁶Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men’s bones and of all filthiness.

²⁸So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

³⁰And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

³¹Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

³²Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

³³You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

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