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Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.
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Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
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and say, `If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'
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Therefore ye are witnesses against yourselves, that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets.
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Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers.
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"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! How can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,
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that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zechariah, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
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Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation