Fools, did not He who made what
is on the outside, make what is inside also? Give of what you have,
then all things will be clean to you.
But woe to you, Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and all kinds of
herbs, and ignore judgment and the love of God. These you ought to have
done without ignoring the others also.
Woe to you, Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues, and
greetings in the markets. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! You are as empty as graves that others walk over and do not
see.
One of the lawyers said, Master, in saying this you reproach us also.
Jesus said, Woe to you also, ye lawyers! You load men with unbearable
burdens and you yourselves do not so much as lay a finger on one of
these burdens.
Woe to you! You build shrines to the prophets and your fathers killed
them. You bear witness that you sanction the deeds of your fathers, for
they killed them and you build their shrines.
The wisdom of God said: I will send them prophets and apostles. Some of
them they shall slay and persecute that the blood of all the prophets,
which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of
this generation. The blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias which
perished between the altar and the temple shall be required of this
generation.
Woe to you, lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge.
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