Mat 23:13-36, Luk 11:39-54 | ESV | STEP | But woe to you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces . For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in .

13 “But woe ^ato you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you ^bshut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you ^cneither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation} 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single ^eproselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a ^fchild of ^ghell ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna; also verse 33} as yourselves.

16 “Woe to ⁱyou, ^jblind guides, who say, ^k‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or ^lthe temple that has made the gold sacred? 18 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by ^mthe gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or ⁿthe altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by ^ohim who dwells in it. 22 And whoever swears by ^pheaven swears by ^qthe throne of God and by ^rhim who sits upon it.

23 ^s“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ^tyou tithe mint and dill and ^ucumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: ^vjustice and mercy and faithfulness. ^wThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing ^xa camel!

25 ^y“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ^zyou clean the outside of ^aathe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of ^abgreed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of ^acthe cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

27 ^ad“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like ^aewhitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and ^afall uncleanness. 28 So you also ^agoutwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of ^ahhypocrisy and lawlessness.

29 ^ai“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are ^ajsons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 ^akFill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, ^alyou brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to ^amhell? 34 ^anTherefore ^aoI send you ^approphets and wise men and ^aqscribes, ^arsome of whom you will kill and crucify, and ^assome you will ^atflog in your synagogues and ^aupersecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all ^avthe righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous ^awAbel to the blood of ^axZechariah the son of Barachiah, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah} whom you murdered between ^azthe sanctuary and ^bathe altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, ^bball these things will come upon this generation.

Luke 11:39-54

39 And the Lord said to him, ^bc“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of ^bdgreed and wickedness. 40 ^beYou fools! ^bfDid not he who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But ^bggive as alms those things that are within, and behold, ^bheverything is clean for you.

42 ^bi“But woe to you Pharisees! For ^bjyou tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect ^bkjustice and ^blthe love of God. ^bmThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For ^bnyou love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you! ^boFor you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

45 One of ^bpthe lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” 46 And he said, “Woe to you ^bqlawyers also! For ^bryou load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 ^bsWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 ^btSo you are witnesses and you ^buconsent to the deeds of ^bvyour fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also ^bwthe Wisdom of God said, ^bx‘I will send them ^byprophets and apostles, ^bzsome of whom they will ^cakill and persecute,’ 50 so that ^cbthe blood of all the prophets, shed ^ccfrom the foundation of the world, may be ^cdcharged against this generation, 51 from the blood of ^ceAbel to the blood of ^cfZechariah, who perished between ^cgthe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be ^chrequired of this generation. 52 Woe to you ^cilawyers! ^cjFor you have taken away the key of ^ckknowledge. You ^cldid not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

53 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 54 ^cmlying in wait for him, ^cnto catch him in something he might say.