36. So then, if your entire body becomes filled with light, not having any part in darkness, then it will be entirely light, and, like a shining lamp, it will illuminate you."
37. And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him to eat with him. And going inside, he sat down to eat.
38. But the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself: "Why might it be that he has not washed before eating?"
39. And the Lord said to him: "You Pharisees today clean what is outside the cup and the plate, but what is inside of you is full of plunder and iniquity.
40. Fools! Did not he who made what is outside, indeed also make what is inside?
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,