25. “It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You wash clean the outside of your cups and dishes. But inside they are full of what you got by cheating others and pleasing yourselves.
26. Pharisees, you are blind! First make the inside of the cup clean and good. Then the outside of the cup will also be clean.
27. “It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You are like tombs that are painted white. Outside they look fine, but inside they are full of dead people’s bones and all kinds of filth.
28. It is the same with you. People look at you and think you are godly. But on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and evil.
29. “It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets. And you show honor to the graves of the godly people who were killed.
30. And you say, ‘If we had lived during the time of our ancestors, we would not have helped them kill these prophets.’
31. So you give proof that you are descendants of those who killed the prophets.
32. And you will finish the sin that your ancestors started!