25. “How horrible it will be for you, experts in Moses’ Teachings and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of cups and dishes. But inside they are full of greed and uncontrolled desires.
26. You blind Pharisees! First clean the inside of the cups and dishes so that the outside may also be clean.
27. “How horrible it will be for you, experts in Moses’ Teachings and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed graves that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people’s bones and every kind of impurity.
28. So on the outside you look as though you have God’s approval, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29. “How horrible it will be for you, experts in Moses’ Teachings and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of those who had God’s approval.
30. Then you say, ‘If we had lived at the time of our ancestors, we would not have helped to murder the prophets.’
31. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.