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Luke 11:39-49

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39So the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but your inside is full of greed and malignancy.
40Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?
41Nevertheless, give what is possible as alms; then indeed all things are clean to you.
42“But woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. These it was necessary to do, without leaving those undone.
43Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces.
44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unperceived graves, that people walk on without knowing it.”
45Then one of the lawyers reacted and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things you insult us also!”
46So He said: “Woe to you lawyers also! You load men down with burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47Woe to you! You restore the tombs of the prophets, it being your fathers who killed them.
48Thereby you witness to and approve of the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, while you restore their tombs.
49Also, because of this ‘the wisdom of God’ said: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

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