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27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are similar to burial-places having been whitewashed[a], which outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of bones of dead ones and all impurity! 28 So also you outside appear righteous to people— but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness! 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the burial-places of the prophets and adorn[b] the tombs of the righteous ones,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:27 A month before Passover, burial places were whitewashed to prevent pilgrims from accidentally coming in contact with them and becoming ceremonially unclean.
  2. Matthew 23:29 Or, decorate, put in order.

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