24. You guide the people, but you are blind! You are like a person who picks a fly out of his drink and then swallows a camel!
25. “How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes. But inside they are full of things that you got by cheating others and pleasing only yourselves.
26. Pharisees, you are blind! First make the inside of the cup clean and good. Then the outside of the cup can be truly clean.
27. “How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees. You are hypocrites! You are like tombs that are painted white. Outside, those tombs look fine. But inside, they are full of the bones of dead people, and all kinds of unclean things are there.