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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For 1you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.
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"You blindPharisee, first2clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may becomecleanalso.
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"3Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are likewhitewashedtombswhich on the outsideappearbeautiful, but inside they are full of deadmen'sbones and alluncleanness.
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"So you, too, outwardlyappearrighteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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"4Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
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and say, 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have beenpartners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
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"So you testify against yourselves, that you 5are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
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"Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
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"You serpents, 6you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of 7hell?
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"8Therefore*, behold, 9I am sending you prophets and wisemen and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will 10scourge in your synagogues, and 11persecute from city to city,
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so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteousbloodshed on earth, from the blood of righteous12Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the 13son of Berechiah, whom14you murderedbetween the temple and the altar.