(23)Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithes of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier precepts of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these thing ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone. (24)Ye blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel. (25)Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and of the dish, but within they are full of rapacity and intemperance. (26)Thou blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may become clean also. (27)Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye resemble tombs whitewashed, which outwardly indeed appear specious, but within are full of dead men's bones, and all manner of impurity. (28)And just so, ye without indeed appear to men righteous, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (29)Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchres of the just, (30)and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. (31)Wherefore ye bear a testimony to yourselves, that ye are the children of those who killed the prophets. (32)Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. (33)Ye serpents, ye broods of vipers! how can ye escape from the damnation of hell? (34)Therefore, behold, I am sending to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye shall kill, and crucify; and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: (35)that upon you may come all the righteous blood which hath been poured out upon the earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel, to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (36)Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come on this generation. (37)O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those who were sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children to me, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not? (38)Behold, your habitation is left unto you desolate. (39)For I tell you, Ye shall henceforth no more see me, until ye say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. CHAP. XXIV. AND Jesus departing was going his way from the temple: and his disciples came to him, to point out to his observation the buildings of the temple. (2)But Jesus said unto them, Do you not see all these things? I tell you of a certainty, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be utterly thrown down.