20. Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all that is on it.
21. And whoever will have sworn by the temple, swears by it, and by him who dwells in it.
22. And whoever swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits upon it.
23. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you collect tithes on mint and dill and cumin, but you have abandoned the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, while not omitting the others.
24. You blind guides, straining out a gnat, while swallowing a camel!
25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you clean what is outside the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of avarice and impurity.
26. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, and then what is outside becomes clean.
27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.
28. So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.
29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, who build the sepulchers of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just.
30. And then you say, 'If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in the blood of the prophets.'
31. And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.
32. Complete, then, the measure of your fathers.