and faithful dealing. These things you ought to have done,
and yet you ought not to have left the others undone.
023:024 You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp
down the camel!
023:025 "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you
wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they
are full of greed and self-indulgence.
023:026 Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish,
and then the outside will be clean also.
023:027 "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are
just like whitewashed sepulchres, the outside of which pleases
the eye, though inside they are full of dead men's bones
and of all that is unclean.
023:028 The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human
eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full
of insincerity and disregard of God's Law.
023:029 "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you repair
the sepulchres of the Prophets and keep in order the tombs
of the righteous,
023:030 and your boast is, "`If we had lived in the time of our forefathers,
we should not have been implicated with them in the murder
of the Prophets.'
023:031 "So that you bear witness against yourselves that you are
descendants of those who murdered the Prophets.
023:032 Fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt.
023:033 O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape
condemnation to Gehenna?
023:034 "For this reason I am sending to you Prophets and wise men
and Scribes. Some of them you will put to death--nay, crucify;
some of them you will flog in your synagogues and chase