Luke 11:35-47

³⁵Take care, therefore, that the inner light is not darkness.

³⁶If, then, your whole body is lit up, and no corner of it darkened, the whole will be lit up, just as when a lamp gives you light by its brilliance.”

³⁷As Jesus finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to breakfast with him, and Jesus went in and took his place at the table.

³⁸The Pharisee noticed, to his astonishment, that Jesus omitted the ceremonial washing before breakfast.

³⁹But the Master said to him, “You Pharisees do, it is true, clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside you yourselves are filled with greed and wickedness.

⁴⁰Fools! Did not the maker of the outside make the inside too?

⁴¹Only give away what is in them in charity, and at once you have the whole clean.

⁴²But alas for you Pharisees! You pay tithes on mint, rue, and herbs of all kinds, and pass over justice and love to God. These last you ought to have put into practice without neglecting the first.

⁴³Alas for you Pharisees! You delight to have the front seat in the synagogues, and to be greeted in the markets with respect.

⁴⁴Alas for you! You are like unsuspected graves, over which men walk unawares.”

⁴⁵Here one of the students of the Law interrupted him by saying, “Teacher, when you say this, you are insulting us also.”

⁴⁶But Jesus went on, “Alas for you, too, you students of the Law! You load people with loads that are too heavy to carry, but do not, yourselves, touch them with one of your fingers.

⁴⁷Alas for you! You build the monuments of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.