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24 You blind guides! straining out the gnat, and yet swallowing the camel!
25 Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26 You blind Pharisee! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too.
27 Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean.
28 So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 "Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright,
30 and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.'
31 So you bear witness against yourselves that you are descended from the murderers of the prophets.
32 Go on and fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt.
33 You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?
34 This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;
35 it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!
36 I tell you, all this will come upon this age!