²³“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important matters of the law—justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary^g to do these things while not neglecting those.^h ²⁴Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel!

²⁵“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence! ²⁶Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish,ⁱ so that the outside of it may become clean also.

²⁷“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean! ²⁸In the same way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

²⁹“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, ³⁰and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!’ ³¹Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets! ³²And you—fill up the measure of your fathers! ³³Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?

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Footnotes

gSome manuscripts have “But it was necessary”
hLiterally “and those not to neglect”
iSome manuscripts omit “and the dish”