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32. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites who keep cups and bowls outwardly clean, yet inside they are full of rapaciousness and greed.
33. "You blind ones, you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites and distorters of the truth, first clean what is inside the cup, so that the outside may become pure and light up with its brilliance.
34. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites who are like whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside, but inside they are full of stench, bones and filth.
35. "So, on the outside you also appear pious and good before the people, while inside you are full of hypocrisy, deceit and transgression.
36. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites who build monuments to the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous and say,
37. "'Had we lived at the time of our forefathers and fathers, we would not have become guilty with them in the shedding of the prophets' blood.'
38. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you deceivers, hypocrites and swindlers. You secretly call upon the dead people of high and of common standing, and you deceive yourselves by misbelieving you were speaking with them and believing in your own delusion.
39. "You cannot talk with the dead, and even if you could, the departed could tell you only the erroneous thoughts they previously held during their lifetime.
40. "You are not great enough to call upon those dead who have wisdom and can tell the truth.
41. "Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who killed the prophets and falsified their teachings.
42. "Well then, fill up the measure of your forefathers and fathers; thus you will end your lives without understanding and will have difficulty learning until the distant future.
43. "You brood of snakes and vipers, how can you aspire to be great in spirit and in consciousness when you don't possess any understanding yet?
44. "All the righteous blood that was shed by your doing on Earth will befall you, beginning with the first prophet your fathers and forefathers murdered, to the blood of Zacharias, the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar, as well as all the blood that will be shed in the future because of your guilt.
45. "You will be outcast among human peoples, and then you will alternately lose the land you took by force, regain it and lose it again well into the most distant future.
46. "Truly, I say to you, your existence will be a continual struggle and war, and so the human peoples will smite you with their hostile thinking and enmity.