26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
27. “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
28. In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29. “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
31. By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!
33. You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?