Luke 11:39-49

³⁹So the Lord told him, “You Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you're full of greed and wickedness.

⁴⁰You're so foolish! Don't you think the one who made the outside made the inside as well?

⁴¹If, acting from within, you do acts of kindness to others, then everything will be clean to you.

⁴²Shame on you Pharisees! You pay tithe on herbs and plants, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You need to pay attention to the latter, while not leaving the former things undone.

⁴³Shame on you Pharisees! You love to have the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect when you go to the markets.

⁴⁴Shame on you! You are like unmarked graves that people walk over without knowing.”

⁴⁵One of the experts in religious law reacted, saying, “Teacher, when you talk like this, you're insulting us too!”

⁴⁶Jesus replied, “Shame on you lawyers too! You place burdens on people that are too hard to carry, but you don't lift a finger to help them.

⁴⁷Shame on you! You build memorial tombs to honor the prophets, but it was your own fathers who killed them in the first place!

⁴⁸By doing this you are witnesses showing that you agree with what your fathers did. They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs!

⁴⁹This is why God in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will kill, and others they will persecute.’