23:22. And he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon. 23:23. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone. 23:24. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. 23:25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness. 23:26. Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean. 23:27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. 23:28. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 23:29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, Build the sepulchres, etc... This is not blamed, as if it were in itself evil to build or adorn the monuments of the prophets: but the hypocrisy of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they pretended to honour the memory of the prophets, were persecuting even unto death the Lord of the prophets. 23:30. 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. 23:31. Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. 23:32. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 23:33. You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? 23:34. Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. 23:35. That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar. That upon you may come, etc... Not that they should suffer more than their own sins justly deserved; but that the justice of God should now fall upon them with such a final vengeance, once for all, as might comprise all the different kinds of judgments and punishments, that had at any time before been inflicted for the shedding of just blood. 23:36. Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 23:37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not? 23:38. Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.