42. “Woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
43. “Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the prominent seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
44. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unseen graves, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.”
45. One of the lawyers answered, “Teacher, by saying these things You insult us also.”
46. He said, “Woe to you also, you lawyers! For you load men with burdens difficult to carry, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47. “Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48. So you are witnesses and entirely approve the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them, and you build their tombs.
49. Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’