Luke 11:40-50

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.

⁴⁸You are actually witnesses to your ancestors' acts and show your approval of them, because, while they killed the prophets, you build tombs for them.

⁴⁹That is why the wisdom of God said — ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles,

⁵⁰some of whom they will persecute and kill, in order that the blood of all the prophets that has been spilt since the creation of the world may be exacted from this generation —