Matthew 23:25-27

Contemporary English Version

²⁵You Pharisees and teachers are show-offs, and you're in for trouble! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes, while inside there is nothing but greed and selfishness. ²⁶You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of a cup, and then the outside will also be clean.

²⁷^(A) You Pharisees and teachers are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You're like tombs that have been whitewashed.^[a] On the outside they are beautiful, but inside they are full of bones and filth.

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Footnotes

23.27 whitewashed: Tombs were whitewashed to keep anyone from accidentally touching them. A person who touched a dead body or a tomb was considered unclean and could not worship with the rest of the Jewish people.