Moffatt(i)
37 When he finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to take a meal in his house; so he went in and lay down at table.
38 The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal,
39 but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.
40 Foolish men! did not He who made the outside make the inside of things too?
41 Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you.
42 But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised — without omitting the former.
43 Woe to you Pharisees! you love the front bench in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.
44 Woe to you! you are like unsuspected tombs; men walk over them unawares."
45 One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well."
46 He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.
47 Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed: