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.
28. It is the same with you. People look at you and think you are good. But on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and evil.
29. “How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets. You show honor to the graves of people who lived good lives.
30. And you say, ‘If we had lived during the time of our fathers, we would not have helped them kill the prophets.’
31. But you give proof that you are children of those people who murdered the prophets.
32. And you will complete the sin that your fathers started!