42. But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
43. Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
44. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
45. One of the Torah scholars answered him, “Rabbi, in saying this you insult us also.”
46. He said, “Woe to you Torah scholars also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
47. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48. So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
49. Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and emissaries; and some of them they will kill and persecute,