Luke 11:39-49

³⁹So Jesus said to him, “You Pharisee mob are like somebody that only cleans the outside of cups and plates. You only do good things if people can see you, like you are good on the outside. But you are really dirty on the inside. You are greedy, and you are always thinking in your heads about doing very bad things.

⁴⁰Look, you are really stupid. You forget that God made the inside of you as well as the outside. He can see everything that is inside your heads.

⁴¹The right way is like this. You have to think in your heads about poor people and you have to be sorry for them, and you have to give them the things they need. Then God will say that you are clean, on the inside as well as on the outside.

⁴²You mob follow God’s law that says you have to give him a little bit of everything you get. That little bit is one part out of every 10, and we call it a tithe. You do that for everything you get, even the little plants that grow in your garden. But you don’t do the important things that God wants everyone to do. So God will make trouble for you Pharisee mob. You see, you have to be fair to other people, and you have to love God. These are the important things that you have to do, and then you can keep on giving God a proper tithe.

⁴³Yes, God will make trouble for you Pharisee mob. You try to get people to think you are important. Whenever you go to a meeting place you want the good seats that are for important people. And whenever you walk around the shopping places you want people to say hello to you in a good way, the way they talk to important people.

⁴⁴So God will make trouble for you mob. You are like graves that nobody marked. People walk on that ground, but they don’t know that there is a dead body under their feet. You are like that. You get people to think you are good, and they don’t know that you are bad on the inside.”

⁴⁵Then a Jewish law teacher said to Jesus, “Hey, Teacher, you are saying bad things about us, too.”

⁴⁶Jesus said, “That’s right, you mob are just as bad, and God will make trouble for you law teachers too. You make a lot of hard rules, and you make people follow all those rules. You are too hard on people. It is like you are making them carry a really heavy load. But you don’t help them at all. You don’t even move one of your fingers to help them.

⁴⁷Yes, God will make trouble for you law teacher mob. A long time ago, your grand-fathers killed the men that told everyone God’s messages, and they buried them. And now, you mob put pretty little stone buildings there to remember the place where they buried them.

⁴⁸In that way you show that you agree with the bad things your grand-fathers did.

⁴⁹Listen, God is wise, so he said, ‘I will pick men to tell everyone my messages, and I will pick men to be my close followers, and I will send them to the people. But the people will kill some of them, and they will hurt some of them.’