Matthew 23:27-39 ▼

27 Woe to you?, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you? are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside they are full of bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.

28 Thus also on the outside you? indeed appear righteous to men, but on the inside you? are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

29 Woe to you?, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you? build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous.

30 And you? 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.’

31 Thus you? bear witness to yourselves that you? are sons of those having murdered the prophets.

32 And you?, fill up the measure of your? fathers.

33 Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you? escape from the judgment of Gehenna?

34 Because of this, behold, I send to you? prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you? will kill and crucify, and some of them you? will flog in your? synagogues and will persecute from city to city,

35 so that upon you? shall come all the righteous blood being poured out upon the earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you? murdered between the temple and the altar.

36 Truly I say to you?, all these things will come upon this generation.

37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her! How often I willed to gather together your children, the way that a hen gathers together her chicks under the wings, and you? were not willing!

38 Behold, your? house is left to you? desolate!

39 For I say to you?, you? shall not see Me from now until you? say, ‘Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord.’”