41. Yet truly, give what is above as alms, and behold, all things are clean for you.
42. But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore judgment and the charity of God. But these things you ought to have done, without omitting the others.
43. Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the first seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplace.
44. Woe to you! For you are like graves that are not noticeable, so that men walk over them without realizing it."
45. Then one of the experts in the law, in response, said to him, "Teacher, in saying these things, you bring an insult against us as well."
46. So he said: "And woe to you experts in the law! For you weigh men down with burdens which they are not able to bear, but you yourselves do not touch the weight with even one of your fingers.
47. Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them!
48. Clearly, you are testifying that you consent to the actions of your fathers, because even though they killed them, you build their sepulchers.
49. Because of this also, the wisdom of God said: I will send to them Prophets and Apostles, and some of these they will kill or persecute,
50. so that the blood of all the Prophets, which has been shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation:
51. from the blood of Abel, even to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. So I say to you: it will be required of this generation!
52. Woe to you, experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves do not enter, and those who were entering, you would have prohibited."
53. Then, while he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the experts in the law began to insist strongly that he restrain his mouth about many things.
54. And waiting to ambush him, they sought something from his mouth that they might seize upon, in order to accuse him.