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Now as he spake, a Pharisee asketh him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.

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And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

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And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

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Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?

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But give for alms those things which are within and behold, all things are clean unto you.

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But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

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Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

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Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] know it not.

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And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also.

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And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

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Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build [their tombs].

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Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles and [some] of them they shall kill and persecute

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that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation

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from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

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Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

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And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things

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laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.