Matthew 23:28-30

The Voice

²⁸ You appear, at first blush, to be righteous, selfless, and pure; but on the inside you are polluted, sunk in hypocrisy and confusion and lawlessness.

²⁹ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build monuments to your dead, you mouth pieties over the bodies of prophets, you decorate the graves of your righteous ancestors. ³⁰ And you say, “If we had lived when our forefathers lived, we would have known better—we would not have joined them when they rose up against the prophets.”