Luke 11:39–52

³⁹But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness. ⁴⁰Fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹But give as charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

⁴²“But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these things without neglecting those things also. ⁴³Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces! ⁴⁴Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, and the people who walk over them^* do not know it!^*

⁴⁵And one of the legal experts answered and^* said to him, “Teacher, when you^* say these things, you insult us also!” ⁴⁶So he said, “Woe to you also, legal experts, because you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers! ⁴⁷Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them! ⁴⁸As a result you are witnesses, and you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build their tombs!^{g 49}For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ ⁵⁰so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple building.^h Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation! ⁵²Woe to you, legal experts, because you have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering!”