Luke 11:39–52

³⁹And the Lord said to him, ^j“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of ^kgreed and wickedness. ^40lYou fools! ^jDid not he who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹But ^mgive as alms those things that are within, and behold, ⁿeverything is clean for you.

^42o“But woe to you Pharisees! For ^pyou tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect ^qjustice and ^rthe love of God. ^sThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees! For ^tyou love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴Woe to you! ^uFor you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

⁴⁵One of ^vthe lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” ⁴⁶And he said, “Woe to you ^wlawyers also! For ^xyou load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ^47yWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. ^48zSo you are witnesses and you ^aconsent to the deeds of ^byour fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹Therefore also ^cthe Wisdom of God said, ^d‘I will send them ^eprophets and apostles, ^fsome of whom they will ^gkill and persecute,’ ⁵⁰so that ^hthe blood of all the prophets, shed ⁱfrom the foundation of the world, may be ^jcharged against this generation, ⁵¹from the blood of ^kAbel to the blood of ^lZechariah, who perished between ^mthe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be ^jrequired of this generation. ⁵²Woe to you ⁿlawyers! ^oFor you have taken away the key of ^pknowledge. You ^qdid not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”