25A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
26You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.
27A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
28Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
29A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,
30If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
31So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
