Matthew 23:23–36

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?

³⁴Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.

³⁵That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

³⁶Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.