19. “Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sets the gift apart?
20. “He, then, who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all that is upon it.
21. “And he who swears by the Dwelling Place, swears by it and by Him who is dwelling in it.
22. “And he who swears by the heaven, swears by the throne of Elohim and by Him who is sitting upon it.
23. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the belief. These need to have been done, without neglecting the others.
24. “Blind guides – straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
25. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are filled with plunder and unrighteousness.
26. “Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them becomes clean too.
27. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
28. “So you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
30. and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.’
31. “Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who did murder the prophets –