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Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
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But as to what is within, give alms, and instantly all is clean in you.
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"But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.
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Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.
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Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden, and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."
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Hereupon one of the expounders of the Law exclaimed, "Rabbi, in saying such things you reproach us also."
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"Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus, "for you load men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves will not touch with one of your fingers.
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Alas for you! for you repair the tombs of the Prophets, whom your forefathers killed.
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It follows that you bear testimony to the actions of your forefathers and that you fully approve thereof. They slew, you build.
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"For this reason also the Wisdom of God has said, `I will send Prophets and Apostles to them, of whom they will kill some and persecute others,'
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so that the blood of all the Prophets, that is being shed from the creation of the world onwards, may be required from the present generation.