40. You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?
41. But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
42. “But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.
43. Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!
44. Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
45. One of the experts in religious law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”
46. But Jesus replied, “Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!
47. Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.
48. So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!
49. For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’
50. so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,